Hi all,

I've requirement wherein I need to move an element and its subsequent child element to other location after transformation (this is basically for print purposes). I am trying to achieve this with XSLT. Let me try again with Sample.

Input:
<article>
<meta>
<journalcode>CEDE</journalcode>
<issn type="print">XXXX-XXXX</issn>
<author primary="yes" corr="yes" seq="1"><name><givenname>Magdalena</givenname><surname>Norberg&hyphen;Schönfeldt</surname></name>
<contact corresponding="yes"/>
</author>
</meta>
<journaltitle>Education Economics</journaltitle>
<title><newpage pagenumber="1"/>Children’s school achievement and parental work: An analysis for Sweden</title>
</article>

Output Required:
<article>
<meta>
<journalcode>CEDE</journalcode>
<issn type="print">XXXX-XXXX</issn>
</meta>
<journaltitle>Education Economics</journaltitle>
<title><newpage pagenumber="1"/>Children’s school achievement and parental work: An analysis for Sweden</title>
[b]<author primary="yes" corr="yes" seq="1"><name><givenname>Magdalena</givenname><surname>Norberg&hyphen;Schönfeldt</surname></name>
<contact corresponding="yes"/>
</author>[b]
</article>

If you notice I need to place the <author> info after <title> after transforming. I am able to that with <xsl:value-of>, but unfortunately it takes only the string values contained by author and not its subsequent child elements, something like this:
<author primary="yes" corr="yes" seq="1">MagdalenaNorberg[#x02010]Sch[#x000F6]nfeldt</author>.

One way of achieving it with use of PERL etc to do search/replace before you actually transform the xml input, which is least desirable, as I would not prefer to play with input XML.

I've been using a Xpath function "content-markup" but altogether in different application and I don't think there is something like has been defined in Xpath/XSLT 1.0 (at least I have not found in Michael Kay Programmer's Reference book).

Any ideas how this can be done or where I should look into to get the solution.



















Pankaj

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Pankaj

Use xsl:copy-of rather than xsl:value-of to copy a whole element.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Problems like this are always tackled using an identity template for the elements that don't need to change:

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:coupy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

coupled with specific templates for the elements that do need to change:

<xsl:template match="meta">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="journalcode|issn"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="article">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="meta/author"/>
</xsl:template>

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

Thanks Michael and Sam, its works. I've another issue <xsl:copy> copies all <author>s and their corresponding children as it is, which is quite fair which I asked earlier.

Problem: I need to put few punctuation in author <surname> and <givenname> + "," between two authors and "and" between second last and last author, something like below:


<author primary="yes" corr="yes" seq="1"><name><givenname>Magdalena</givenname> <surname>Norberg&hyphen;Schönfeldt</surname></name>
<contact corresponding="yes"/>
</author>, <author primary="yes" corr="yes" seq="1"><name><givenname>Magdalena</givenname> <surname>Norberg&hyphen;Schönfeldt</surname></name>
<contact corresponding="yes"/>
</author> and <author primary="yes" corr="yes" seq="1"><name><givenname>Magdalena</givenname> <surname>Norberg&hyphen;Schönfeldt</surname></name>
<contact corresponding="yes"/>
</author>

Getting punctuation ",. and "and" " would have easily done if movment of authors were not required. But in case I need to output <author>s with required punctuation.

Is there is any way of getting that before/after copying <author> (Just let me know the way around and rest will be done by me as i need to include other punctuation, not described here just to avoid the complexity).

Also, how to avoid <author> which are outputting as child to <title> (which is understood as they have copied match="article/title"). Below is the snippet, I've written for testing purposes as of now:


    <xsl:template match="article/title">
        <xsl:element name="title">
    <xsl:attribute name="aid:pstyle">art_title</xsl:attribute>
            <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </xsl:element>
        <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of select="preceding-sibling::meta/author"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

Sorry for asking so much.

Tanks





Pankaj

Also I need to add new attributes to <author> and <affiliation id="AF0001"> elements.

Thanks a lot.

Pankaj