TEI-XML dictionary to simple HTML table using XSL

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TEI-XML dictionary to simple HTML table using XSL

235 Views Asked by Rimdar At 08 November 2025 at 19:09

Need to put "entryFree" words in a first column (leaving <form> content for second), and "sense" and other as a second, every pair in the same row, with borders. Sample XSL stylesheet contains formatting only.

sample XML: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sNAbWw5xo1pgwK2QfQwPrbZtZt8uV48T/view?usp=sharing

fancy XSL (licence permits modification): https://github.com/michmech/tei-dictionary.xsl

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**Martin Honnen** · Accepted Answer

If you want to map all entryFree elements to HTML table rows (i.e. HTML tr elements in an HTML table) then set up the table as needed and in a tbody process all entryFree elements, mapping them with a template to a tr:

<xsl:output method="html" doctype-system="about:legacy-doctype"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
        <head>
            <title>Test</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            <h1>Table</h1>
            <table>
                <thead>
                    <tr>
                        <th>free entry</th>
                        <th>forms/senses</th>
                    </tr>
                </thead>
                <tbody>
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="//tei:entryFree"/>
                </tbody>
            </table>
        </body>
    </html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="tei:entryFree">
    <tr>
        <td>
            <xsl:value-of select="@sortKey"/>
        </td>
        <td>
           <xsl:apply-templates/> 
        </td>
    </tr>
</xsl:template>

You will need to remove the template matching tei:entryFree obviously.

As for formatting the table, that is a HTML/CSS problem, HTML 4 https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#h-11.3.1 allows e.g.

            <table rules="all" frame="border">
                <thead>
                    <tr>
                        <th>free entry</th>
                        <th>forms/senses</th>
                    </tr>
                </thead>
                <tbody>
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="//tei:entryFree"/>
                </tbody>
            </table>

in HTML5 I think using CSS is preferred:

<xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
        <head>
            <title>Test</title>
            <style>
                table.dict { 
                  border: 1px solid black;
                  border-collapse: collapse;
                }
                table.dict th, table.dict td {
                  border: 1px solid black;
                }
            </style>
        </head>
        <body>
            <h1>Table</h1>
            <table class="dict">
                <thead>
                    <tr>
                        <th>free entry</th>
                        <th>forms/senses</th>
                    </tr>
                </thead>
                <tbody>
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="//tei:entryFree"/>
                </tbody>
            </table>
        </body>
    </html>
</xsl:template>

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