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htmlxmlxsltmultiple-columns
Leo
Leo

Reputation: 1934

XSLT with not nestable tags

I have an XML document which contains both structure (section) tags and display tags (columns):

<document>
  <new-column/>
  <section1>
    text
  </section1>
  <section2>
    text
    <new-column/>
    text
  </section2>
</document>

I am writing an XSLT to display this as HTML, and the logical way would be to use a <div> tag to display the text in separate columns, so I'd have to convert <new-column> into <div>. However, the <div> requires a closing </div> tag, with all the comprising elements in between, but then the document would not be well-formed, with <section> and <new-column> being wrongly nested. One solution would be to add closing </section> tags like this:

<document>
  <new-column>
    <section1>
      text
    </section1>
    <section2>
      text
    </section2>
  </new-column>
  <new-column>
    <section2>
      text
    </section2>
  </new-column>
</document>

However, I was wondering if anyone has a better idea, such as adding text to a div section on the fly, or perhaps using a different solution for multiple column (and multiple pages) display. TIA

Upvotes: 0

Views: 109

Answers (1)

michael.hor257k
michael.hor257k

Reputation: 116959

Would something like this work for you?

XSLT 1.0

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:key name="text-by-col" match="text()" use="generate-id(preceding::new-column[1])" />

<xsl:template match="/">
    <document>
       <xsl:for-each select=".//new-column">
            <div>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="key('text-by-col', generate-id())" mode="span"/>
            </div>
       </xsl:for-each>
    </document>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()" mode="span">
    <span id="{local-name(parent::*)}"><xsl:copy/></span>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Upvotes: 1

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