Question

Background

Converting a document from OpenOffice to DocBook format.

Problem

Parts of the document include the following:

<ul><li><ul><li><ul><li><p>...</p></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>

While other parts of the document include:

<ul><li><p>...</p></li></ul>

I tried to match just the inner-most ul tag using:

<xsl:template match="xhtml:ul[not(child::xhtml:li/child::xhtml:ul)]">
...
</xsl:template>

But this does not match. The following expression:

<xsl:template match="xhtml:ul">

Will create, as expected:

<itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
...
</itemizedlist>
</itemizedlist>
</itemizedlist>

Desired Output

The desired output format, regardless of ul nesting, is:

<itemizedlist>
...
</itemizedlist>

Question

What’s the correct syntax for matching the innermost child ul node?

Ideas

There are a few ways to resolve this:

• Search/replace the original document (there are only ~20 instances).
• Use xsl:test within the li node to see if the child node is ul.

What XPath expression would work? For example:

<xsl:template match="xhtml:ul[not(grandchild::xhtml:ul)]">

Thank you!

Answer 1

<xsl:template match="xhtml:ul[not(descendant::xhtml:ul)]">
  <itemizedlist><xsl:apply-templates /></itemizedlist>
</xsl:template>