[xsl] Re: Move a section in XSL

["Bob DuCharme" <bob at udico dot com>]

>I want to move the SUPPLIER section into the ARTICLE section and leave the
rest as it is. Please tell me
>how to do this ?

(After seeing your posting on xml-dev and then opening with a comment about
how xsl-list is a better place for XSL(T) stylesheet issues, I now see that
you cc'd your posting to xsl-list. I don't see any answer there yet, so I'll
forge ahead.)

One problem is that your XML couldn't be valid: the DOCTYPE declaration said
that the document element was ARTICLE, but the SUPPLIER element came before
the ARTICLE element. The document element has to enclose everything else.

To process it, you could do this: remove the DOCTYPE declaration and add
some other element (I'll call it TEMP) around the whole thing to make it
well-formed. The stylesheet below should then do what you need. I tried to
comment it a lot.

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<!-------- beginning of stylesheet ------------->
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
      version="1.0">

  <xsl:template match="TEMP">
     <!-- Assumes that TEMP's only children are SUPPLIER and ARTICLE.
          Process ARTICLE child but not SUPPLIER child. -->
     <xsl:apply-templates select="ARTICLE"/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="ARTICLE">
    <ARTICLE xml:lang="en">
      <!-- Put SUPPLIER sibling after ARTICLE start
           tag, then ARTICLE's other children.        -->
      <xsl:apply-templates select="../SUPPLIER"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </ARTICLE>
  </xsl:template>

  <!-- Copy any nodes not covered above. -->
  <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


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