Foot notes to end notes

Frimann · April 26th, 2008, 08:42 AM

I want to write out foot notes in the input document as end notes in a separate list at the bottom of the output document. The notes are marked up with asterixes (*, **, *** etc.) which I have replaced with sequential numbers allocated by <xsl:number>. This works fine, but I don't know how to lift out the notes of their original context and place them in a list.

Input is somewhat like this:

<page_content id="001">
 Text, text, <foot_note target="001">text</foot_note>, text.
 Text, text, text, text.
 <foot_note id="001">Text, text, text, text.</foot_note>
</page_content>

<page_content id="002">
 Text, text, <foot_note target="002">text</foot_note>, text.
 Text, text, <foot_note target="003">text</foot_note>, text.
 <foot_note id="002">Text, text, text, text.</foot_note>
 <foot_note id="003">Text, text, text, text.</foot_note>
</page_content>

... etc...

Output is supposed to look like this:

<page_content id="001">
 Text, text, <end_note target="001">text</end_note>, text.
 Text, text, text, text.
</page_content>

<page_content id="002">
 Text, text, <end_note target="002">text</end_note>, text.
 Text, text, <end_note target="003">text</end_note>, text.
</page_content>

...etc ...

<end_note_list>
 <end_note id="001">Text, text, text, text.</end_note>
 <end_note id="002">Text, text, text, text.</end_note>
 <end_note id="003">Text, text, text, text.</end_note>

... etc ...

</end_note_list>

Martin Honnen · April 26th, 2008, 09:38 AM

It should not be that difficult, assuming you have a root element containing the page_content elements you simply set up a template for that that creates the end_node_list:

Code:

<xsl:template match="/*>
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="page_content"/>
    <end_note_list>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="page_content/foot_note"/>
    </end_note_list>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="foot_note">
  <end_note>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
  </end_note>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="page_content">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()[not(self::foot_node)]"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="foot_note_target">
  <end_note_target>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
  </end_note_target>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@* | text()">
  <xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>

--
Martin Honnen
Microsoft MVP - XML