Convert <br /> elements to <p /> during html copy

[eloralon]

Hello,

Is it possible to convert <br/> from legacy html to <p/> during copy and paste process?

I have some content from html, which I usually copy from the browser to oXygen in Author mode for further cleaning.

Hopefully there is a way to convert these <br/> elements to <p/> elements because I have a good number of them.

Thanks

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

The paste operation executed in Author mode just tries to transform the markup of the source HTML document to an equivalent one in the target document, that is a list/table/image/link/etc. will remain a list/table/image/link/etc. in the language of the target document (XHTML, DITA, DocBook, TEI). The paste operation does not transform a <br/> element to a <p/> one. I suggest creating and running an XSLT stylesheet on the XML document for adding the <p/> elements that will replace the <br/> ones.


Regards,
Sorin

[sorin_ristache]

I have some content from html, which I usually copy from the browser to oXygen in Author mode for further cleaning.

Hopefully there is a way to convert these <br/> elements to <p/> elements because I have a good number of them.

If you paste in Author mode in a DITA topic file, a DocBook document, a TEI document or an XHTML one you can convert all <br/> elements to <p/> elements by modifying the XSLT stylesheet that does the conversion of the copied fragment:

• for DITA topics the XSLT stylesheet is [Oxygen-folder]\frameworks\dita\resources\xhtml2dita.xsl
• for DocBook 4 the XSLT stylesheet is [Oxygen-folder]\frameworks\docbook\resources\xhtml2db4.xsl
• for DocBook 5 the XSLT stylesheet is [Oxygen-folder]\frameworks\docbook\resources\xhtml2db5.xsl
• for TEI 4 the XSLT stylesheet is [Oxygen-folder]\frameworks\tei\resources\xhtml2tei4.xsl
• for TEI 5 the XSLT stylesheet is [Oxygen-folder]\frameworks\tei\resources\xhtml2tei5.xsl
• for XHTML the XSLT stylesheet is [Oxygen-folder]\frameworks\xhtml\resources\xhtml2xhtml.xsl

Regards,
Sorin

[eloralon]

Thanks Sorin for your reply,

Since I have a very rudimentary understanding of xslt because I am still learning it. Would you please tell me how to go about the change for the <br/> conversion to <p/>?

Looking through the xslt style sheet for html to DITA I saw the following template:

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 <xsl:template match="xhtml:p">

  <xsl:choose>

     <xsl:when test="not(parent::xhtml:th | parent::xhtml:td) and not(normalize-space(.) = '')">

       <p>

         <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>

         <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="checkHeadings"/>

       </p>

     </xsl:when>

     <xsl:otherwise>

       <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>

       <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="checkHeadings"/>

      </xsl:otherwise>

   </xsl:choose>

  </xsl:template>

, which I think needs to be copied and modified for my purpose. Trouble is that I don't really know how to?

Thanks.

Loralon

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

Please look at some XSLT tutorials. Maybe some XSLT experts from the XSL-List mailing list can be more helpful.


Regards,
Sorin