I have xml like this,
<section>
<p id="ss_main">aa</p>
<p id="ss_chap">bb</p>
<p id="main">cc</p>
<p id="main">dd</p>
<p id="main">ee</p>
<p id="ss_main">ff</p>
<p id="main">gg</p>
<p id="main">hh</p>
<p id="main">ii</p>
<p id="main">jj</p>
<p id="ss_chap">xx</p>
<p id="ss_main">yy</p>
<p id="ss_chap">zz</p>
</section>
what my requirement is place new nodes named <ss_start>
and <ss_end>
by covering existing nodes witch are start with ss
.
so the output should be,
<section>
<ss_start/>
<p id="ss_main">aa</p>
<p id="ss_chap">bb</p>
<ss_end/>
<p id="main">cc</p>
<p id="main">dd</p>
<p id="main">ee</p>
<ss_start/>
<p id="ss_main">ff</p>
<ss_end/>
<p id="main">gg</p>
<p id="main">hh</p>
<p id="main">ii</p>
<p id="main">jj</p>
<ss_start/>
<p id="ss_chap">xx</p>
<p id="ss_main">yy</p>
<p id="ss_chap">zz</p>
<ss_end/>
</section>
I can write xsl like follows to cover specific node by <ss_start>
and <ss_end>
<xsl:template match="p[@id='ss_main']">
<ss_start/>
<p id="ss_main"><xsl:apply-templates/></p>
<ss_end/>
</xsl:template>
but I'm struggling to find consecutive nodes that id attr starting from ss
and cover them by <ss_start>
and <ss_end>
.
Can anyone suggest me a method how can I do this?
XSLT 1.0 sibling recursion
In XSLT 1.0 you can do this as follows, which uses a technique called sibling recursion (though sibling traversal is probably a better term).
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="node() | @*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="section">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[1]" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="section/*[starts-with(@id, 'ss')]" priority="5">
<xsl:if test="self::*[not(preceding-sibling::*[1][starts-with(@id, 'ss')])]">
<ss_start />
</xsl:if>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*" />
</xsl:copy>
<xsl:if test="self::*[not(following-sibling::*[1][starts-with(@id, 'ss')])]">
<ss_end />
</xsl:if>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[1]" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="section/*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*" />
</xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[1]" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Which, when run against your input, will create this output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section>
<ss_start/>
<p id="ss_main">aa</p>
<p id="ss_chap">bb</p>
<ss_end/>
<p id="main">cc</p>
<p id="main">dd</p>
<p id="main">ee</p>
<ss_start/>
<p id="ss_main">ff</p>
<ss_end/>
<p id="main">gg</p>
<p id="main">hh</p>
<p id="main">ii</p>
<p id="main">jj</p>
<ss_start/>
<p id="ss_chap">xx</p>
<p id="ss_main">yy</p>
<p id="ss_chap">zz</p>
<ss_end/>
</section>
I see now that you tagged your question with xslt-2.0, which means you can use grouping. I'll try to update with an example in XSLT 2.0.
XSLT 2.0 group-adjacent
In XSLT 2.0, you can use a boolean true/false as the the group-adjacent grouping key as follows, which is quite a bit shorter than the XSLT 1.0 code above:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:output indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="node() | @*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="section">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:for-each-group select="*" group-adjacent="starts-with(@id, 'ss')">
<xsl:if test="current-grouping-key()"><ss_start /></xsl:if>
<xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()" />
<xsl:if test="current-grouping-key()"><ss_end /></xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each-group>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
You could also use ...
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:output indent="yes" encoding="utf-8" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
<xsl:template match="node() | @*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="p[starts-with(@id, 'ss')]
[not(starts-with(preceding-sibling::p[1]/@id, 'ss'))]">
<ss_start />
<xsl:next-match />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="p[starts-with(@id, 'ss')]
[not(starts-with(following-sibling::p[1]/@id, 'ss'))]">
<xsl:next-match />
<ss_end/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>