Question

Here’s xml example:

<a>
    <b>Text</b>
    <b>Text</b>
    <b>Text</b>
    <page/>
    <b>Text</b>
    <b>Text</b>
    <page/>
    <b>Text</b>
    <b>Text</b>
    <b>Text</b>
    <b>Text</b>
</a>

And here is html I want to achieve:

<p>Text Text Text</p>
<p>Text Text</p>
<p>Text Text Text Text</p>

It’s first time I’m using XSL so please, forgive me.

Right now I’m using this loop:

<xsl:for-each select="a/*">
    <p>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    <xsl:if test="UNKNOWN_TEST">
    </p>
    </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

My question is, what do I need to type instead of UNKNOWN_TEST here? Or maybe that’s not they way I should try to work it out?

Answer 1

You can’t see if it’s self-closed, you can test if it’s empty, it won’t work anyway, because your xsl is not well-formed.

Possible (not really pleasing) solution:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

 <xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:for-each select="/a/b[name(preceding-sibling::*[1])!='b']">
   <p>
    <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
    <xsl:variable name="pp" select="generate-id(preceding-sibling::page[1])" />
    <xsl:variable name="fp" select="generate-id(following-sibling::page[1])" />
    <xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::b[generate-id(preceding-sibling::page[1])=$pp and generate-id(following-sibling::page[1])=$fp]">
     <xsl:value-of select="concat(' ',./text())"/>
    </xsl:for-each>
   </p>
  </xsl:for-each>
 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>