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Israel Viente wrote:
I have another question regarding this. I want to be able to control the valid ending paragraph characters from a config file in xml. How can I read the set [.?"!] from an external xml? - say something like: <ParagraphTerminator> <Char>.</Char> <Char>?</Char> <Char>"</Char> <Char>!</Char> </ParagraphTerminator> You can do that by pulling in that document with the doc function and building the regular expression: <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xpath-default-namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" version="2.0"> <xsl:output method="xhtml"/> <xsl:variable name="chars" select="string-join(doc('chars.xml')/ParagraphTerminator/Char, '')" xpath-default-namespace=""/> <xsl:variable name="re1" select="concat('[', $chars, ']$')"/>
<xsl:template match="p[span[@class ne 'chapter'] and not(matches(span[@class ne 'chapter'][last()], $re1))]"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node() | following-sibling::p[1]/node()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="p[preceding-sibling::p[1][span[@class ne 'chapter'] and not(matches(span[@class ne 'chapter'][last()], $re1))]]"/> </xsl:stylesheet> There are however certain characters like '-' that would need to be escaped. That applies to both solutions but is easier to forget and overlook if the characters are read in from a file. -- Martin Honnen http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
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