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Asked: 2026-05-27T05:35:15+00:00

I built an XML workflow to create a rich HTML document with automatic hyperlinks

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I built an XML workflow to create a rich HTML document with automatic hyperlinks and anchors using unique ids. But I need to add unique anchors to an existing element that are untagged. I don’t want to go through the hundreds of elements to tag the content, so I am wondering if there is a way to pull out the letter starting a paragraph and then append it to a section number to create the unique ID anchor attribute.
The XML looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<RULES>
<RULE>
<RULE_SECTION>
<RULE_subhead><num>3-3</num>. DOUBT AS TO PROCEDURE </RULE_subhead>
<rule_letterhead>a. Procedure </rule_letterhead>
<rule_letterhead-B>b. Determination of Score for Hole </rule_letterhead-B>
</RULE_SECTION>
<RULE_SECTION>
<RULE_subhead><num>4-1</num>. FORM AND MAKE OF CLUBS </RULE_subhead>
<rule_letterhead>a. General </rule_letterhead>
<rule_letterhead-B>b. Wear and Alteration </rule_letterhead-B>
<rule_letterhead-B>c. Damage in Normal Course of Play </rule_letterhead-B>
</RULE_SECTION>
</RULE>
</RULES>

Note how the two <rule_letterhead> and <rule_letterhead-B> elements start with an initial letter and period (a. b. c., etc). I’d like to build HTML to look like this:

<body>
<h2 class="RULE_subhead" id="r3-3">3-3. DOUBT AS TO PROCEDURE </h2>
<h3 class="rule_letterhead" id="r3-3a">a. Procedure </h3>
<h3 class="rule_letterhead" id="r3-3b">b. Determination of Score for Hole </h3>
<h2 class="RULE_subhead" id="r4-1">4-1. FORM AND MAKE OF CLUBS </h2>
<h3 class="rule_letterhead" id="r4-1a">a. General </h3>
<h3 class="rule_letterhead" id="r4-1b">b. Wear and Alteration </h3>
<h3 class="rule_letterhead" id="r4-1c">c. Damage in Normal Course of Play </h3>
</body>

So, the XSL has to pull the Section number and append it to the first letter of the elements <letterhead> or <letterhead-B> like this “4-1a”.

Here is the XSL I am currently using:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="RULES"/>
</body>
</html>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="RULE_subhead">
<h2 class="RULE_subhead" id="{concat('r',translate(normalize-space(num), ' ', ''))}">
  <xsl:apply-templates/></h2>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="rule_letterhead">
<h3 class="rule_letterhead"><xsl:apply-templates/></h3>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="rule_letterhead-B">
<h3 class="rule_letterhead"><xsl:apply-templates/></h3>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

It is working for all the other elements.

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    <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" 
              doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
              doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
      <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
        <title>Untitled Document</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="RULES"/>
      </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="RULE_subhead">
    <h2 class="RULE_subhead" 
        id="{concat('r',translate(normalize-space(num), ' ', ''))}">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </h2>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="rule_letterhead|rule_letterhead-B">
    <h3 class="rule_letterhead"
        id="{concat('r',translate(normalize-space(preceding-sibling::RULE_subhead/num), ' ', ''), 
            substring(., 1, 1))}">
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </h3>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
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