XSLT extracting certain descendants to higher level outside of ancestor

[rbrunn]

Hi all,

I'm trying to write a XSL-transformation which converts AI-exported
SVG-Files to be more compatible with firefox. Namely I want to extract
gradients which are declared inside of symbol tags to a higher level.
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353575)

i.e.

....
<svg...>
....
<symbol>
...
<...>
...
<linearGradient...>
...
</linearGradient>
...
</...>
...
</symbol>
....
</svg>
....

shall be converted to:

....
<svg...>
....
<linearGradient...>
...
</linearGradient>
<symbol>
...
<...>
...
</...>
...
</symbol>
....
</svg>
....

Is this possible? Even if the descendant I want to extract is no direct
child of symbol?

Thanks,
Ronnie

[Joseph Kesselman]

rb****@think-cell.com wrote:

Is this possible? Even if the descendant I want to extract is no direct
child of symbol?

Sure. The template for symbol needs to first find and process
//linearGradient, then process all the other descendants but discard the
linearGradient elements. This presumes that you won't have <svginside
<svg>; that would make things slightly more complicated. Depending on
what you're doing, the template which does the match-and-discard may
need to be under control of a mode, but that may not be true for the
simple case you've described.

--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden