Hi All,

Wrting an XSLT using DTD.

Following is MY DTD

DTD
------------------------------------------------------------
Parent Elements:
==================
<!ELEMENT poem (stanza|poemline|by|para)*>
--------------------------------------------------------------

Sub Elements (child Elements):
===============================
<!ELEMENT stanza (poemline)+>
<!ELEMENT poemline (#PCDATA|emph|indent|link|sup|sub|footnote)*>
<!ELEMENT by (#PCDATA|sign|phrefnm|emph|link)*>
<!ELEMENT sign (#PCDATA|emph)*>
<!ELEMENT phrefnm (#PCDATA|emph)*>

<!ELEMENT para (#PCDATA|emph|link|x|br|figure|box|map
            |chart|scheme|illust|table
            |listgrp|transgrp|bioname|sup|sub|objidref|bibliog raphy
            |deflist|extract|verse|quote|algorthm|poem
            |equation|convt|footnote|indent)*>


<!ELEMENT transgrp (heading?, (transref|foreign|trans|orgsents|x|br|link)*)>

<!ELEMENT foreign (#PCDATA|emph|sub|sup|br|equation|link|indent|tran sref|footnote)*>

<!ELEMENT link (#PCDATA|emph|sup|br)*>
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My Comments.
1. Element poem is introducing element (i.e.) it is generated with XSLT.
2. Element poem will contains a sub-elements link stanza, poemline, by, sign, phrefnm, para
3. Similarly the sub element will contains or not contains some of its generic DTD sub element for e.g.
    <poem>
    <stanza>
    <poemline/><link/>
    <poemline/>
    <para>
        <chart/>
        <transgrp>
            <heading/>
            <foreign>
            <transref/>
            <equation>
                .......
            </equation>
            </foreign>
        </stanza>
    </poem>


My Question?

1. Is that possible write a dynamic XSLT based on DTD(i.e.) Specifically on GROUPING.

<!ELEMENT foreign (#PCDATA|emph|sub|sup|br|equation|link|indent|tran sref|footnote)*> these cases

2. When I came across grouping I got with breaking outputs when I introduce other grouping element inside a grouping.
3. Any of XSLT GURU can help .I hope

Regards and Thanks,
ROCXY

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Thanks,
Rocxy.

I'm afraid it's very hard to understand your question. I don't understand what you mean by "grouping" - it doesn't seem related to the usual use of the term in XSLT. You have shown an element declaration that permits a list of possible children such as emph, sub, etc: you can of course write template rules to process these elements.

XSLT stylesheets have no access to the DTD. Of course, when you write a stylesheet then you will design it to handle a particular input structure, but that's the only way the DTD comes into it.

I'm not sure what you mean by a "dynamic XSLT", and if the following is a question "When I came across grouping I got with breaking outputs when I introduce other grouping element inside a grouping." then I'm afraid I don't know what it's asking.



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference