Re: AW: AW: [xsl] use preceding element or self

Subject: Re: AW: AW: [xsl] use preceding element or self
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:06:45 +0100
> Works well in the XMLSpy Xpath Evaluator, but Saxon8.2 is not giving me
> the right values back.

Does xmlspy do xpath2? (Also saxon8.2 is implementing an older draft of
xslt2, 8.4 implements the current draft)

Note also that the second [1] is not doing anything here

[not(contains(text()[1],','))[1]]

not(contains(text()[1],',')) is a sequence of exactly one boolean value,
true or false so [1] is selecting the first item from a sequence of one.

Also you've dropped (.| from the beginning of the expression so uou are
just testing preceding siblings, not the current node, in which case you
can more simply write


(preceding::par[@class='Komm_H3'])[text()[1][normalize-space()]][not(con
tains(text()[1],','))[1]][last()]

as

preceding::par[@class='Komm_H3'][text()[1][normalize-space()]][not(con
tains(text()[1],','))[1]][1]

> Seems to be a Saxon issue.

Hmm 99 times out of 100 I'd believe saxon (especially if 8.4 gives the
same result) Can you make a smaller example (6 or 7 line) and a small
complete stylesheet that does the wrong thing? and post the input and
output you get?

David

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