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Sam Quigley wrote:


> I want to use XSL to wrap paragraphs of text in <p> tags
> automatically, basically using the heuristic that two chunks of text
> separated by 2 consecutive newlines are to be treated as two <p>s... 
> I do this right now by putting the input xml (the text to be wrapped)
> in a <paraset> tag, and using the following XSL:
> 
> <xsl:template match="paraset">
>   <xsl:call-template name="wrapinp">
>     <xsl:with-param name="input">
>       <xsl:value-of select="."/>

Here you pass in the value of a <paraset> element to the named template 
wrapinp meaning here you throw out all structure the <paraset> content 
might have and reduce it to its string value.
If you want to process <emph> elements for instance you need to make 
sure you do process text nodes and element nodes in <paraset> 
recursively with e.g. <xsl:apply-templates />.
Of course you want to split text by newlines however that is hard with 
XSLT if you have child elements as well, if possible try to fix the 
original markup to use elements to indicate the paragraph structure and 
not newlines.
I realize I have only explained what goes wrong in your current solution 
without providing a better approach with XSLT, I would start looking at
   http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html
for a solution.


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	Martin Honnen
	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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