RE: [xsl] images and captions

["Andrew Welch" <awelch at piper-group dot com>]

I would recommend building an RTF containing all <img> and <caption>
elements, images having a generated id, something like:

<img id="aa1"/>
<caption value="Picture blah blah"/>
<img id="ab2"/>
<caption value="more blah blah"/>

Then when you come across an <img> you can query the RTF for the
correspoding <img> by id, then if the next node is a <caption> use its
@value as the @alt in your output.

This will only work if the caption for an image is between the image its
meant for and the following image.  I cant really see how you could
include captions that appear before it as well, as you are basically
saying 'the caption could appear anywhere'...

but you never know, someone might have a neat solution.

cheers
andrew   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Shaw [mailto:n8_shaw@yahoo.com]
> Sent: 24 September 2002 15:24
> To: XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] images and captions
> 
> 
> hi all.
> 
> I am using a product called YAWC to allow users to
> enter news releases into Word and then export them
> into XML. Everything is going ok except for images and
> their captions.
> 
> Because of the way the images and their captions get
> exported, there is no link between them. In the
> resulting xml doc I get from the export from Word,
> they look like this:
> 
> <p><img src="C:\Documents and Settings\nshaw.HQIRMS\My
> Documents\genericpics\ISS\transhub.jpg"
> height="120.75" width="156.75"/></p>
> <caption>Picture of the ISS TransHAB.</caption>
> 
> What I do is take that xml and transform it into
> another xml doc that I can work with a bit easier
> before transforming it into html, txt and pdf.
> So, my question is, how can I, in XSLT, shove the
> caption into my Media tag (<Media type="image"
> file="transhub.jpg" alt="Picture of the ISS TransHAB"
> />) without having any direct link between the two
> elements?
> 
> The <caption> element will most likely follow the
> <img> element, but that is not always the case. It may
> be above it in some cases. Not every img will have a
> caption.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Nathan
> 
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