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Re: limitations of xslt

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You will find that the following gives you what you want - not
commented, but I've tried to keep it simple by flattening the structure.

Not sure how scaleable this approach compared to others - any comments,
anyone?

Francis.	



<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <result>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="//title" />
  </result>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="title">
  <section>
    <sectionTitle>
      <xsl:value-of select="text()" />
    </sectionTitle>
    <xsl:apply-templates
select="following-sibling::*[1][not(self::title)]" />
  </section>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template
match="bullet[preceding-sibling::*[1][not(self::bullet)]]">
  <ul>
    <li>
      <xsl:value-of select="text()" />
    </li>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[1][self::bullet]"
/>
  </ul>
  <xsl:apply-templates
select="following-sibling::*[not(self::bullet)][1][not(self::title)]" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="bullet">
  <li>
    <xsl:value-of select="text()" />
  </li>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[1][self::bullet]" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="normal">
  <text>
    <xsl:value-of select="text()" />
  </text>
  <xsl:apply-templates
select="following-sibling::*[1][not(self::title)]" />
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Earl Bingham wrote:
> 
> Here is my input file:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <textItems>
>    <title>Here is my first title!</title>
>    <bullet>first group first bullet</bullet>
>    <bullet>first group second bullet</bullet>
>    <normal>first group first normal</normal>
>    <bullet>first group third bullet</bullet>
>    <title>Here is my second title!</title>
>    <bullet>second group first bullet</bullet>
>    <normal>second group first normal</normal>
>    <bullet>second group second bullet</bullet>
>    <bullet>second group third bullet</bullet>
> </textItems>
> 
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