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LingHead.xsl — Selects the required declension of head nouns in an XML document.
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An XML document. You must mark up the source document with linguistic attributes describing the syntactic case and / or definiteness required for each head noun in the document.
An XML document, identical to the input except that head nouns are declined for syntactic case and / or definiteness.
The stylesheet recurses through the document and copies each element. When the stylesheet finds an element with the ling:type='head' attribute, it checks for the required definiteness and syntactic case according to the following algorithm:
The required definiteness is taken to be the value of the nearest ancestor ling:class attribute; if there isn’t one, the required definiteness is assumed to be ind (indefinite).
The required syntactic case is taken to be the value of the nearest ancestor ling:case attribute; if there isn’t one, the required syntactic case is assumed to be nom (nominative).
The stylesheet then checks for the definiteness and syntactic case of the current head element according to the following algorithm:
If the current head element has an ling:class attribute, its value is taken as the head element’s definiteness; if it doesn’t, the head element’s definiteness is assumed
to be ind (indefinite).
If the current head element has an ling:case attribute, its value is taken as the head element’s syntactic case; if it doesn’t, the head element’s syntactic case is assumed
to be nom (nominative).
If the case and class of the head element match the required case and class, the head element is copied to the output; if not, the head element and all its descendent elements are deleted.
This is useful when you need to transclude a term into a sentence and want to select the correct form of the term, depending on the case and / or definiteness required in the target sentence.
This stylesheet should be applied after the head nouns have all been transcluded into place.
The stylesheet does not decline head nouns for grammatical number, i.e. singular or plural. (Dependent words are declined for number.) It is currently assumed that you will define separate transclusion resources for the singular and plural forms of a word. This may change in future, especially if the stylesheets move to support languages that have more than two grammatical numbers.
In DocBook files, this stylesheet matches token elements as well as elements with the ling:type='head' attribute. This may be removed in a future release.
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