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    <p>In the process of trying to make a stylesheet to convert old LoC transcriptions of books that used a very-outdated SGML DTD for formatting, I've run into a roadblock at the following situation:</p> <p>In the converted XML files, there are some lines of text like the following:</p> <p><code>&lt;p&gt; Text on left &lt;hsep&gt;&lt;/hsep&gt; Text on right &lt;/p&gt;</code></p> <p>hsep essentially pushes the remaining text to be right-justified. Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to convert this to HTML by just converting tags, as HTML has nothing like hsep short of dubious CSS hacks. I think it would be more useful to be able to convert this to something like:</p> <p><code>&lt;p&gt; Text on left &lt;span class="right"&gt;Text on right&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</code></p> <p>However, I'm not sure how to do this, as it would require that, in the <code>&lt;p&gt;</code> element, I determine whether there's an <code>&lt;hsep&gt;</code> and then create a tag surrounding the remaining text based on it being there, while also applying templates to any elements that might be there. I don't think cases where I have something like </p> <p><code>&lt;p&gt; Text a &lt;em&gt; Text b &lt;hsep&gt;&lt;/hsep&gt; Text c &lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</code></p> <p>are common or even present, so I don't think that will pose a problem, but there may be situations like:</p> <p><code>&lt;p&gt; &lt;em&gt; Text a Text b &lt;hsep&gt;&lt;/hsep&gt; Text c &lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</code></p> <p>I can think of complicated, horrible ways of doing this involving regexes, but I'm hoping there's a non-horrible way.</p>
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    1. COActually, in examining the DTD more closely, it turns out that hsep can mean any spacing (usually tab-like) between the text; in practice, I've usually seen it in table of contents to separate the page numbers.
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    2. COGood question (+1). See my answer for a complete and simple solution. :)
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