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When using XSL to transform XML for InDesign, How do I get the bold to output

Posted on 2011-03-07
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Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

I have an XML document provided to me,  here's a snippet:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<web-export>
<?whitespace-handling use-characters?>
<run-date>02/10/2011
<pub-code>UNG VP
<ad-type>CLS 6 Col Tab
<cat-code>Liner</cat-code>
<class-code>100</class-code>
<subclass-code>143</subclass-code>
<position-description>Notices</position-description>
<ad-number>0000146752-01</ad-number>
<start-date>02/10/2011</start-date>
<end-date>02/10/2011</end-date>
<line-count>6</line-count>
<run-count>1</run-count>
<customer-type>Transient</customer-type>
<account-number>151915</account-number>
<account-name>OREGON WCP STATEWIDE CLASS</account-name>
<addr-1>133 ENTERPRISE DRIVE </addr-1>
<addr-2> </addr-2>
<city>VERONA</city>
<state>WI</state>
<postal-code>53593</postal-code>
<country>USA</country>
<phone-number>6081111111</phone-number>
<fax-number></fax-number>
<url-addr></url-addr>
<email-addr></email-addr>
<pay-flag>N</pay-flag>
<ad-description>ATTENTIONDIABETICSWITHMEDICAREGETAFREETA</ad-description>
<order-source></order-source>
<order-status>Ready</order-status>
<payor-acct>151915</payor-acct>
<agency-flag>N</agency-flag>
<rate-note></rate-note>
<ad-content>
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</ad-type>

I need to pull the data out of it that I need (not all) and apply formatting. I also don't want any repeating heads. I have accomplished this much with XSL.

What I can't get is the bold tag, within the ad-content tag to show up in the output.

Here is the XSL:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
 
<!--Container Element -->
<xsl:element name="ad-type">
 
<!--Start loooping through XML data -->
 <xsl:for-each select="web-export/run-date/pub-code/ad-type">
     
<!--Set up elements. Do not ouput subclass-code and position-description dups-->
<subclass-code>
                  <xsl:value-of select='concat(subclass-code[not(.=preceding::subclass-code)], " ", position-description[not(.=preceding::position-description)])'/>
      </subclass-code>
     
<!--Carriage Return -->
      <xsl:text>&#13;</xsl:text>
     
<!--Add ad content -->
      <ad-content><xsl:value-of select="ad-content"/>
      </ad-content>

<!--Carriage Return -->    
     <xsl:text>&#13;</xsl:text>
     
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>      
</xsl:stylesheet>

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by:Geert Bormans
ID: 35062350
short answer:
replace this
<ad-content><xsl:value-of select="ad-content"/>
      </ad-content>
by this
<xsl:copy-of select="ad-content"/>

value of will only show the text nodes
copy-of will make a deep copy
     
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Geert Bormans earned 500 total points
ID: 35062436
long answer,
it is always better to avoid for-each in favour of apply-templates if you can
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <!--Container Element -->
        <xsl:element name="ad-type">
            <!--Start loooping through XML data -->
            <xsl:apply-templates select="web-export/run-date/pub-code/ad-type"/>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>  
    
    <xsl:template match="ad-type">
        <!--Set up elements. Do not ouput subclass-code and position-description dups-->
        <subclass-code>
            <xsl:value-of select='concat(subclass-code[not(.=preceding::subclass-code)], " ", position-description[not(.=preceding::position-description)])'/>
        </subclass-code>
        
        <!--Carriage Return -->
        <xsl:text>&#13;</xsl:text>
        
        <!--Add ad content -->
        <ad-content><xsl:apply-templates select="ad-content/node()"/>
        </ad-content>
        
        <!--Carriage Return -->    
        <xsl:text>&#13;</xsl:text>
        
    </xsl:template>
    
    <xsl:template match="node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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by:charthumser
ID: 35062443
Wow. you've got to be kidding?!

Will that take care of italics and underlines too?

Actually, it's a bit flakey...it doesn't always end the bold.
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by:Geert Bormans
ID: 35062461
it takes care of all the deeper nodes, italics and underline too

do you mean that your source is not well formed?
what is flakey?
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by:charthumser
ID: 35062464
wow.
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by:charthumser
ID: 35062554
I meant that it wasn't always ending the bold where it was supposed to, it would bold the whole paragraph instead of just the word(s) between the tags.

Your revised code worked perfectly. I posted the flaky comment before I seen your code.

One more question, I have a carriage return after the subclass-code because without it, the Paragraph marker was applying the style from the next element. Any ideas?

I really appreciate the help, I was pulling my hair out on this one.

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by:Geert Bormans
ID: 35062584
OH, I see,
I have no clue about the paragraph marker
depends on how you look at the result
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