Question

I have the following input:

<node TEXT='txt'>   <node TEXT='txt'>     <node TEXT='txt'/>     <node TEXT='txt'/>   </node>   <node TEXT='txt'/> </node> <node TEXT='txt'/> 

I am currently using:

<xsl:number level='multiple' count='node' format='1'/> 

within an XSTL script to receive the following output:

1 txt 1.1 txt 1.1.1 txt 1.1.2 txt 1.2 txt 2 txt 

but i want to have this output:

* txt ** txt *** txt *** txt ** txt * txt 

Can you help me?

PS: I want to convert a freemind map to basic mediawiki list syntax. And yes! i am aware that there are several ways to get native freemind maps into media wikis, but i need the conversion of the <node>-tree to ***-lists

Answer 1

One simple way to do this is to just translate the result of the

<xsl:number/>

into the wanted format.

This transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>

<xsl:output method='text'/>

<xsl:strip-space elements='*'/>

<xsl:template match='node'>   <xsl:variable name='vIndent'>     <xsl:number level='multiple' count='node'/>   </xsl:variable>    <xsl:value-of select=    'concat(translate($vIndent,                      '1234567890.',                      '**********'),            ' ',            @TEXT,          '&#xA;'          )'/>  <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> 

</xsl:stylesheet>

when applied on this XML document:

 <t>     <node TEXT='txt'>         <node TEXT='txt'>             <node TEXT='txt'/>             <node TEXT='txt'/></node>         <node TEXT='txt'/></node>     <node TEXT='txt'/> </t> 

produces the wanted result:

 * txt ** txt *** txt *** txt ** txt * txt 

Note the use of the translate() function to discard any ‘.’ characters and to translate any digit into an ‘*’.