Re: [xsl] Matching the first text element in a subtree

["J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx>]

Martin Holmes wrote:
> I'm attempting (using XSL 1.0 and Saxon 6.5.5) to do drop-caps by 
> matching the first text element in the first paragraph of the second 
> div0 in a TEI document. Where the text node is a direct child of the p 
> tag, this works:
>
> <xsl:template match="div0[2]/p[1]/text()[1]">
>
> However, where another tag intervenes in the tree, this fails:
>
> <div0>
>     <p>
>         <title>Blah</title> was published in...
>     </p>
> </div0>
>
> Here, the first text node is the one following the title tag,

Well, unless you strip whitespace generously, the first text
node would be the whitespace just after the <p>.

>  So what I want to do is select the first text node which is a
> descendant (rather than a direct child) of the p tag.

Try
  <xsl:template match="(div0[2]/p[1]//text())[1]">
note the additional parenthesis (beware, untested). Be sure to
combine this with proper whitespace stripping.

J.Pietschmann