Re: [docbook-apps] RE: Delete child <section> via xsl

[Joshua Wulf <jwulf@redhat.com>]

Thanks for the suggestion Rob.

When I try this I get:

XSLT-apply-templates: could not compile select expression '*[not(name() = 'title']'


- Josh

----- Original Message -----
From: "rob cavicchio" <rob.cavicchio@emc.com>
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Friday, May 4, 2012 12:55:19 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] RE: Delete child <section> via xsl

Joshua J Wulf [mailto:jwulf@redhat.com] wrote:

> I'd like to do the following with an xsl template:
> 
> If a section or chapter contains an immediate child section with the
> same title, then
> delete the child's<section/>  and<title/>  tags, but not the contents
> between the child<section>  and</section>.


I think that you want to do something like the following (untested), though you might have to tweak the details. I'm guessing that the situation you are thinking of is that you have a chapter with only a single section in it. (This code does not actually test to make sure that there are no other sections within the chapter, but it could be made to do so.)


<xsl:template match="section">
	<xsl:choose>
		<xsl:when test="string(title) = string(../title)">
			<xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(name() = 'title']" />
		</xsl:when>
		<xsl:otherwise>
			<!-- NORMAL SECTION PROCESSING -->
		</xsl:otherwise>
	</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>


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