How can I use XSLT to turn an HTML definition list (DL) into a two-column XSL-FO table with the terms in the first column and the definitions in the second, with multiple definitions possible?
(Apologies if this is already answered somewhere. I searched but did not find.)
This question has the crux of finding the following-siblings that still have the current DT as their term: XSLT: Select following-sibling until reaching a specified tag
Then it's just a matter of defining the whole table as the top-level DL template:
<xsl:template match="dl">
<fo:table>
<fo:table-body>
<xsl:for-each select="dt">
<xsl:variable name="current-term" select="."/>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell font-weight="bold" width="5.5cm">
<fo:block>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::dd[preceding-sibling::dt[1] = $current-term]" />
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</xsl:for-each>
</fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="dd">
<fo:block>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</fo:block>
</xsl:template>