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Re: [xsl] Merging elements

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On 27 Oct 2011, at 11:18, Andrew Welch wrote:

>> I've been looking at the problem for too long and have a horribly complex
set of grouping statements that applied in a multiple mode stylesheet. I'm
convinced that there's a simpler way to do this but I think that I can't see
the wood for the trees. Does anyone have an elegant way to do this?
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> Use 'sibling recursion', similar to the identity template but it
> traverses the following-sibling axis... then add a specific template
> for the span which does the grouping (by checking if the immediate
> following sibling element is also a span)

Thank you Andrew. I knew there was a good solution and that's it.

nic

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