Re: [xsl] Immediately preceding-sibling

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hm (Mick),

At 11:54 AM 10/20/2003, I wrote:
> If you want to be *really* fancy:
>
> substring(" _",1 + preceding-sibling::*[1][self::nospace], 1)
>
> will give you a " " or a "_" depending on what the immediate preceding 
> sibling is (since a Boolean false or true becomes the number 0 or 1 when 
> you try to add it).

And now I'm thinking that to work around the type-conversion rules you may 
have to do

substring(" _",1 + boolean(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::nospace]), 1)

since otherwise your node-set will be turned into a string before it's made 
a Boolean and then a number.... :->

Cheers,
Wendell


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