https://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Count_Metrical_Lines_P4.xsltCount Metrical Lines P4.xslt - Revision history2026-04-22T00:00:01ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.32.0https://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php?title=Count_Metrical_Lines_P4.xslt&diff=2502&oldid=prevSyd: Initial upload of stylesheet2006-02-20T19:38:31Z<p>Initial upload of stylesheet</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Counting <l> elements in a TEI document is pretty easy. But when a metrical line is broken in order to handle overlap, e.g., often two or more TEI <l> elements are used to represent a single metrical line. There are several mechanisms for indicating this fact, two of the more common of which are the use of the part= attribute and the use of the next= & prev= attributes. This stylesheet counts metrical lines in a TEI P4 document, taking into consideration those that have been encoded using several <l> elements using these mechanisms. It does not take other mechanisms (e.g., <join>) into account.<br />
<pre><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><br />
<!-- Count lines of poetry, P4 version --><br />
<!-- Conceived and written 2006-02-19 by Syd Bauman --><br />
<!-- Copyleft 2006 Syd Bauman --><br />
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"><br />
<br />
<xsl:output method="text"/><br />
<br />
<xsl:template match="/TEI.2"><br />
<xsl:apply-templates/><br />
</xsl:template><br />
<br />
<!-- Only look at <l> elements inside the outermost <text> element --><br />
<!-- (Not likely that there are <l> elements in the <teiHeader>, but --><br />
<!-- you never know.) --><br />
<xsl:template match="/TEI.2/text"><br />
<xsl:text>There are </xsl:text><br />
<!-- count all lines that do not claim to be continuations of another line elsewhere --><br />
<xsl:value-of select="count(.//l[not(@prev) and not(@part='M') and not(@part='F')])"/><br />
<xsl:text> metrical lines in “</xsl:text><br />
<xsl:apply-templates<br />
select="/TEI.2/teiHeader/fileDesc/titleStmt/title[@type='main' or not(@type)][1]"/><br />
<xsl:text>”</xsl:text><br />
<!-- <l> with part="Y" are metrically incomplete lines, which need to be reported separately --><br />
<xsl:variable name="incomplete" select="count(.//l[@part='Y'])"/><br />
<xsl:if test="$incomplete > 0"><br />
<xsl:text>, of which </xsl:text><br />
<xsl:value-of select="$incomplete"/><br />
<!-- singular or plural? --><br />
<xsl:choose><br />
<xsl:when test="$incomplete = 1"><br />
<xsl:text> is</xsl:text><br />
</xsl:when><br />
<xsl:otherwise><br />
<xsl:text> are</xsl:text><br />
</xsl:otherwise><br />
</xsl:choose><br />
<xsl:text> incomplete</xsl:text><br />
</xsl:if><br />
<xsl:text>.</xsl:text><br />
</xsl:template><br />
<br />
<!-- for a <title>, just return the string-value of its children --><br />
<!-- (We don't have to worry about this template applying except --><br />
<!-- when we ask for it, above, because any other ancestor will --><br />
<!-- be completely ignored anyway (see below).) --><br />
<xsl:template match="title"><br />
<xsl:apply-templates/><br />
</xsl:template><br />
<br />
<!-- Just ignore most anything and everything else --><br />
<xsl:template match="*"/><br />
<br />
</xsl:stylesheet></pre><br />
[[Category:XSLT]]</div>Syd