I am working on creating an XSLT that transforms Html into an XML
format that can be imported into Framemaker. The challenge, it turns
out, is correctly transforming the flat html header tags (<H1>, <H2>,
etc)
into nested sections inside the xml. I have made significant
progress, but have run into a roadblock.
Here is an example of my input HTML:
<html><body>
<p>abc abc</p>
<h1 class='header'> A</h1>
<p>A abc abc</p>
<h2 class='header'> B</h2>
<p>B abc abc</p>
<h3 class='header'> C</h3>
<p>Cabc abc</p>
<h2 class='header'> D</h2<!-- this is missing in the output --
<p>D abc abc</p<!-- this is missing in the output -->
<h1 class='header'> E</h1>
<p>E abc abc</p>
</body></html>
Here is an example of the output, you'll notice that the <H2>D</h2>
is missing.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<article>
<title/>
<para>abc abc</para>
<section depth="1" id="A">
<title>A</title>
<para>A abc abc</para>
<section depth="2" id="B">
<title>B</title>
<para>B abc abc</para>
<section depth="3" id="C">
<title>C</title>
<para>C abc abc</para>
</section>
</section>
</section>
<section depth="1" id="E">
<title>E</title>
<para>E abc abc</para>
</section>
The problem is that my code is currently applying templates to all
nodes following a header who's nearest preceding header is that same
header. For this reason when content follows a header which isn't
it's header (like an <h2following an <h3>) it doesn't get shown.
What I don't understand is how to fix it. Any help would much
appreciated. I'm not really an xsl guru, so I'm doing the best I can
to get through this.
Here is the relevant code from my xsl:
<xsl:template match="body">
<article>
<title>
<xsl:value-of select="$docTit le" />
</title>
<xsl:for-each select='child:: *[not(preceding-
sibling::*[@class="header"])][not(@class="hea der")]'>
<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:variable name='depth'
select='substri ng(name(child:: *[@class="header"][1]),2)'/>
<xsl:for-each select='child:: *[@class="header"]
[substring(name( ),
2)<=$depth]'>
<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</article>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="h1 | h2 | h3 | h4 | h5">
<xsl:call-template name="header">
<xsl:with-param name="depth" select="substri ng(name(),2)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="header">
<xsl:param name="depth"/>
<section>
<xsl:attribut e name="depth">
<xsl:value-of select="$depth"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribut e name="id">
<xsl:value-of select="transla te(.,' ','')" />
</xsl:attribute>
<title><xsl:val ue-of select="."/></title>
<xsl:variable name='thisHeade r' select='generat e-id(.)'/>
<xsl:for-each select='followi ng-sibling::*[$thisHeader=gen erate-
id(preceding-sibling::*[@class="header"][last()])]
[not(@class="hea der") or (@class="header " and substring(name( ),2)>=
$depth)]'>
<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</section>
</xsl:template>
format that can be imported into Framemaker. The challenge, it turns
out, is correctly transforming the flat html header tags (<H1>, <H2>,
etc)
into nested sections inside the xml. I have made significant
progress, but have run into a roadblock.
Here is an example of my input HTML:
<html><body>
<p>abc abc</p>
<h1 class='header'> A</h1>
<p>A abc abc</p>
<h2 class='header'> B</h2>
<p>B abc abc</p>
<h3 class='header'> C</h3>
<p>Cabc abc</p>
<h2 class='header'> D</h2<!-- this is missing in the output --
>
<h1 class='header'> E</h1>
<p>E abc abc</p>
</body></html>
Here is an example of the output, you'll notice that the <H2>D</h2>
is missing.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<article>
<title/>
<para>abc abc</para>
<section depth="1" id="A">
<title>A</title>
<para>A abc abc</para>
<section depth="2" id="B">
<title>B</title>
<para>B abc abc</para>
<section depth="3" id="C">
<title>C</title>
<para>C abc abc</para>
</section>
</section>
</section>
<section depth="1" id="E">
<title>E</title>
<para>E abc abc</para>
</section>
The problem is that my code is currently applying templates to all
nodes following a header who's nearest preceding header is that same
header. For this reason when content follows a header which isn't
it's header (like an <h2following an <h3>) it doesn't get shown.
What I don't understand is how to fix it. Any help would much
appreciated. I'm not really an xsl guru, so I'm doing the best I can
to get through this.
Here is the relevant code from my xsl:
<xsl:template match="body">
<article>
<title>
<xsl:value-of select="$docTit le" />
</title>
<xsl:for-each select='child:: *[not(preceding-
sibling::*[@class="header"])][not(@class="hea der")]'>
<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:variable name='depth'
select='substri ng(name(child:: *[@class="header"][1]),2)'/>
<xsl:for-each select='child:: *[@class="header"]
[substring(name( ),
2)<=$depth]'>
<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</article>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="h1 | h2 | h3 | h4 | h5">
<xsl:call-template name="header">
<xsl:with-param name="depth" select="substri ng(name(),2)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="header">
<xsl:param name="depth"/>
<section>
<xsl:attribut e name="depth">
<xsl:value-of select="$depth"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribut e name="id">
<xsl:value-of select="transla te(.,' ','')" />
</xsl:attribute>
<title><xsl:val ue-of select="."/></title>
<xsl:variable name='thisHeade r' select='generat e-id(.)'/>
<xsl:for-each select='followi ng-sibling::*[$thisHeader=gen erate-
id(preceding-sibling::*[@class="header"][last()])]
[not(@class="hea der") or (@class="header " and substring(name( ),2)>=
$depth)]'>
<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</section>
</xsl:template>
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