XSLT Properly applying formatting attributes

[osirus100]

I'm new to XML so any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

I have this XML that needs to be translated to HTML. Therefore I have decided to use XSLT to do this. The XML has a lot of formatting attributes that I need to convert into HTML tags.

For example:

<Paragraph>
<Run FontStyle="Italic" FontWeight="Bold">Bold and Italic</Run>
<Run FontWeight="Bold">Bold</Run>
</Paragraph>

There are others formatting attributes and each Run tag may have many or no formatting attributes. Therefore all Italics need to be converted to <i>, bolds to <b>, etc.

I started to use nested <xsl:choose> statements to do this but then realized it would get nasty very quickly.

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="./@FontWeight = 'Bold'">
<b>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="./@FontStyle='Italic'"> <i><xsl:value-of select="."/></i>
</xsl:when>
<xsltherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</b>
</xsl:when>
<xsltherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>

There must be a better way...any ideas?

 

[JontyMC]

How about this:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"[/URL] version="1.0">
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="Paragraph">
    <p>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </p>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="Run">
    <span>
      <xsl:attribute name="style">
        <xsl:if test="@FontStyle">
          <xsl:text>font-style:</xsl:text>
          <xsl:value-of select="@FontStyle"/>
          <xsl:text>;</xsl:text>
        </xsl:if>
        <xsl:if test="@FontWeight">
          <xsl:text>font-weight:</xsl:text>
          <xsl:value-of select="@FontWeight"/>
          <xsl:text>;</xsl:text>
        </xsl:if>
      </xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </span>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Jon

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