I'm afraid I don't know TT well enough, so may be that there is a way to do it, but I can't see it.

As I see it, the problem arises when you want to cut (or replicate) a block. Say you have the following fragment:

<document>
  ...
  <para>paragraph #1</para>
  <para>paragraph #2</para>
  <para>paragraph #3</para>
  ...
</document>

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If you want to programmatically cut away the second paragraph you have to surround it with TT commands, but this breaks XML integrity and, worse, it is not editable from OO writer.

But if you put the command inside the <para> tag you can delete the text but end up with an empty paragraph.

What I would need is a template language allowing a sort of look-ahead and look-behind (perhaps look-around is the right term?) so I can tell "remove this block and all the surrounding <para> tag". I don't know if TT, or another template processor, can do this.

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In reply to Re^2: OpenOffice, XML and templates by psini
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