hello sir

i got a problem with <author>, i have to give the output according to order of childs of author, how to do that with xslt


input:
<author>
<surname>Goldoft</surname><x> </x><fname>M</fname>
</author>,
<author>
<fname>PM</fname><x> </x><surname>Griffin</surname>
</author>



output:
<name-inverted>
<surname>Goldoft</surname> <given-names>M</given-names>
</name-inverted>,
<name>
<given-names>PM</given-names> <surname>Griffin</surname>
</name>


thanks
rajashekhara

Something like this:

<xsl:template match="author[1]">
<name-inverted>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</name-inverted>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="author[position() > 1]">
<name>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</name>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="surname">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="fname">
<given-names><xsl:value-of select="."/></given-names>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="x">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

This assumes the first author is always "inverted", and the others aren't. An alternative test that's sensitive to the actual content is

<xsl:template match="author[*[1][self::surname]]">

which tests whether the first child element is a surname element.

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

sir we have to check whether <author> contains <surname> which comes before <fname> or after <fname>

and one more thing is <author> may contains any other tags like "middle-name, coresp-link, affiliation-link, footnote-link etc," that may comes anywhere in the <author> tag, at the beginning or at the end or in between <surname> and <fname>

thanks
Rajashekhara

>we have to check whether <author> contains <surname> which comes before <fname> or after <fname>

Try two rules with:

match="author[surname/following-sibling::fname]"

match="author[surname/preceding-sibling::fname]"

>and one more thing is <author> may contains any other tags like "middle-name,

That's the beauty of template rules. Just add a template rule for each element that might be encountered.

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

thanks very much
its working