[xsl] rearranging and colouring a document

[horst at freedict dot de]

Hello,

I hope I shouldn't have found the answers to my questions on
previous mails in the list, or the (very, very good xsl faq)

I do have a document (drama marked up in TEI in fact), which I
would like to transform in two ways:

a) rearrange the document, so that all the parts for one person
are listed in a block

b) colour the text for a person in a certain colour (it does not
matter which colour, as long as it is consistent within the
document). As this should be applied to several texts, I do not
want to have a fixed colour / name realationship. - Of course the
text should otherwise be just a copy of the original text.


Example source:

<text>
<sp><speaker>person1</speaker><p>text 1</p></sp>
<sp><speaker>person2</speaker><p>text 2</p></sp>
<sp><speaker>person3</speaker><p>text 3</p></sp>
<sp><speaker>person2</speaker><p>text 4</p></sp>
<sp><speaker>person1</speaker><p>text 5</p></sp>
<sp><speaker>person2</speaker><p>text 6</p></sp>
<sp><speaker>person1</speaker><p>text 7</p></sp>
</text>


expected result:
a) (text sorting)
<text>
<sp><speaker>person1</speaker><p>text 1</p></sp>
<sp><speaker>person1</speaker><p>text 5</p></sp>
<sp><speaker>person1</speaker><p>text 7</p></sp>
<sp><speaker>person2</speaker><p>text 2</p></sp>
<sp><speaker>person2</speaker><p>text 4</p></sp>
<sp><speaker>person2</speaker><p>text 6</p></sp>
<sp><speaker>person3</speaker><p>text 3</p></sp>
</text>

b) (text colouring)
<text>
<sp colour="red"><speaker>person1</speaker><p>text 1</p></sp>
<sp colour="blue"><speaker>person2</speaker><p>text 2</p></sp>
<sp colour="green"><speaker>person3</speaker><p>text 3</p></sp>
<sp colour="blue"><speaker>person2</speaker><p>text 4</p></sp>
<sp colour="red"><speaker>person1</speaker><p>text 5</p></sp>
<sp colour="blue"><speaker>person2</speaker><p>text 6</p></sp>
<sp colour="red"><speaker>person1</speaker><p>text 7</p></sp>
</text>


Thanks for your assistance,

Horst


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