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<xsl:when test="substring(forename, string-length(.)) = '.'">
 <xsl:value-of select="surname" />, <xsl:value-of select="forename"
/><xsl:text>&#160;</xsl:text>
   </xsl:when>

should be

<xsl:when test="substring(forename, string-length(forename)) = '.'">
 <xsl:value-of select="surname" />, <xsl:value-of select="forename"
/><xsl:text>&#160;</xsl:text>
   </xsl:when>


On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Charles Muller
<cmuller-lst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been keeping my bibliographies in TEI <biblStruct> format for many
> years, but I've been using the <author> node with plain text inside like
> this:
>
> <author>Bauman, Syd</author>
>
> rather than using the <forename> and <surname> tags.
>
> Recently I began to use the more specific format of
>
> <author><surname>Bauman</surname><forename>Syd</forename></author>
>
> ...but have run into an XSLT problem that has me stymied.
>
> As everyone knows, in bibliography output we have to deal with the case
> where the forename might end in a period, and where the output adds a
period
> after the author's name. I.e., we don't want
>
> Muller, Albert C.
>
> B to end up as
>
> Muller, Albert C..
>
> To deal with this problem in my old system, I was using this kind of
> structure:
>
> <xsl:template match="author">
>
> [...]
>
> B <xsl:when test="substring(., string-length(.)) = '.'">
> B <xsl:apply-templates/>
> B <xsl:text>&#160;</xsl:text>
> B </xsl:when>
> </xsl:choose>
>
> In other words, in the case where the author name ends in a period, only
> inserting a space after, without a period.
>
> I'm now trying to create the same kind of function in the case where the
> <forename> tag is used, to test whether or not the forename has a period,
> and outputting with or without a period accordingly. After spending half a
> day on this, the closest I could come up with was the following code, which
> does not do the trick. I present it here as a continuation of the above
> example:
>
> <xsl:when test="substring(., string-length(.)) = '.'">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> <xsl:text>&#160;</xsl:text>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> B <xsl:choose>
> B  B <xsl:when test="child::surname">
> <xsl:choose>
>
> {next, in the case of the presence of a period in the forename, we output
> without a period}
>
> <xsl:when test="substring(forename, string-length(.)) = '.'">
> B <xsl:value-of select="surname" />, <xsl:value-of select="forename"
> /><xsl:text>&#160;</xsl:text>
> B  B </xsl:when>
>
> {next, in the other case, where there is no period in the forename, we
> output with a period}
>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> B <xsl:value-of select="surname" />, <xsl:value-of select="forename"
> /><xsl:text>.&#160;</xsl:text>
> B  B </xsl:otherwise>
>
>
> I believe I must have an XPath error of some sort, but have not been able
to
> identify it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. In case it is necessary,
> I include the full code below.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chuck
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> <xsl:template match="author">
>
> <!-- 2003-08-01
> If our author name is the same as the preceding one, output a string of
> dashes in its place. NB this presupposes that identical names are indeed
> entered identically! It might also be a wise precaution to normalize-space
> both the string values we are B comparing. Also, the "suppression marker"
> perhaps ought to be in a variable rather than hard-coded as here.
> -->
>
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="preceding::biblStruct[1]/*/author = .">
> <xsl:text>----.&#160;</xsl:text>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:when test="preceding::biblStruct[1]/*/editor = .">
> <xsl:text>----.&#160;</xsl:text>
> </xsl:when>
> B <xsl:when test="preceding::bibl[1]/author = .">
> B <xsl:text>----.&#160;</xsl:text>
> B </xsl:when>
> <xsl:when test="preceding::bibl[1]/editor = .">
> B <xsl:text>----.&#160;</xsl:text>
> B </xsl:when>
> B  B  <xsl:when test="preceding::bibl[1]/*/author = .">
> B  B  B  B <xsl:text>----.&#160;</xsl:text>
> B  B  B </xsl:when>
> <xsl:when test="substring(., string-length(.)) = '.'">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> <xsl:text>&#160;</xsl:text>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> B <xsl:choose>
> B  B <xsl:when test="child::surname">
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="substring(forename, string-length(.)) = '.'">
> B <xsl:value-of select="surname" />, <xsl:value-of select="forename"
> /><xsl:text>&#160;</xsl:text>
> B  B </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> B <xsl:value-of select="surname" />, <xsl:value-of select="forename"
> /><xsl:text>.&#160;</xsl:text>
> B  B </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose></xsl:when>
> B  B <xsl:otherwise>
> B  B  B <xsl:apply-templates/><xsl:text>.&#160;</xsl:text>
> B  B </xsl:otherwise></xsl:choose>
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
>
>
>
> -------------------
>
> A. Charles Muller
>
> University of Tokyo
> Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Faculty of Letters
> Center for Evolving Humanities
> 7-3-1 HongE
, BunkyE
-ku
> Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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