And exactly this made me headaches and lead me to ask the community for
help.

Best regards,
Maik

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:24:05 -0400
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: cknell@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Re:  how to translate XML with XHTML-formatted element
to FO
Message-ID: <B0036942183@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I remain puzzled over the idea that there are "escaped" HTML tags in your
input XML file. They appear as ordinary HTML tags in my email. In order to
proceed I will put this down to a different understanding of what
"escaped" means. If I have misunderstood you, please clarify the matter
further.

I have taken your input and output and written a stylesheet that will
produce the expected output. Well, almost. In your input file you have the
bold and italic tags nested in the Donald Duck entry, but they are not
nested in the desired output you posted. I will assume that this is a
typing error and go on to produce nested output as is suggested by the
input document's structure.

Given all these caveats, this stylesheet produces what I think you want.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
 <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />

 <xsl:template match="/">
   <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
     <xsl:apply-templates />
   </fo:flow>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="BOOKS">
 <xsl:apply-templates />
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="BOOK">
   <fo:block>
     <fo:block space-before.optimum="1pt" space-after.optimum="2pt">
       <xsl:apply-templates />
     </fo:block>
   </fo:block>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="AUTHOR">
   <fo:block>Author: <xsl:value-of select="." /></fo:block>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="PRICE">
   <fo:block>Price : US$ <xsl:value-of select="." /></fo:block>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="TITLE">
   <xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when test="child::*">
       <fo:block>Title : <xsl:apply-templates /></fo:block>
     </xsl:when>
     <xsl:otherwise>
       <fo:block>Title : <xsl:value-of select="." /></fo:block>
     </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="b">
   <xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when test="child::*">
       <fo:inline font-weight="bold"><xsl:apply-templates /></fo:inline>
     </xsl:when>
     <xsl:otherwise>
       <fo:inline font-weight="bold"><xsl:value-of select="."
/></fo:inline>
     </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="i">
   <xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when test="child::*">
       <fo:inline font-style="italic"><xsl:apply-templates /></fo:inline>
     </xsl:when>
     <xsl:otherwise>
       <fo:inline font-weight="italic"><xsl:value-of select="."
/></fo:inline>
     </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Charles Knell
cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email