[SlugBug] a perl/xslt question. potentially inappropriate.

[Mike Dewar]

That's bloody great, that is. With your help I've managed to write the 
stylesheet and it seems to work with quite a variety of different 
pages... all i have to do now is recursively jump about directories, 
converting xml to wiki and populating the wiki's MySQL database! No 
problem!

Something tells me the job's just starting.

Cheers,

Mike D

Chris J wrote:

>And Lo! The Great Prophet Mike Dewar uttered these words of wisdom:
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>>That's great! I was making things harder than they needed to be, and i 
>>didn't realise you could apply a template that you hadn't created... I 
>>suppose if you don't specify a template it just gives you the text in 
>>the tag?
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>Essentially yes. The actual rule basically says:
>	- when you apply templates to an element, process its child
>		elements
>	 - when you apply templates to a text node, give its value
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>...so in essence, you're just getting the textual information.
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>>Would making it a bit more human-readable be a huge problem? The reason 
>>I ask is that the wiki should be human-editable once it's up... this 
>>mucking about with xml should just be to populate the wiki to begin 
>>with. Everything after this should remain in the wiki. Having readable 
>>text will make it easier for people who aren't used to editing things 
>>like this to go ahead and edit the wiki....
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>It might depend on the XSLT implementation, but some dirt simple poking 
>about managed to churn out some more useable output:
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><?xml version="1.0"?>
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><xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
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>        <xsl:template match="/">
>                <xsl:apply-templates />
>        </xsl:template>
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>        <xsl:template match="P"><P><xsl:apply-templates /></P></xsl:template>
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>        <xsl:template match="VERB">'''<xsl:apply-templates />'''</xsl:template>
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></xsl:transform>
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>...notice I've essentially removed the newlines from the P and VERB 
>templates. With sablotron, this gives:
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><P>
>        For a vector or a matrix '''x''', '''y=sum(x)'''  
>        returns in the scalar '''y''' the sum of all the entries
>        of '''x'''.</P>
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>Copying text nodes can often be hit and miss; I've never quite got the 
>whitespace to appear as I want it. It is possible to insert explicit 
>newlines with <xsl:text>, but sometimes extra newlines can appear where you 
>don't want them. More often than not it's a case of restructuring the XSLT 
>to suppress the newlines, as above.
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>Usually it's never a problem though as I'm using it to spit out HTML or XML 
>for further machine processing, and not for human consumption... :-)
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>Chris...
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