Re: [xsl] XPointers to the start and the end of an element (not its content)?

[Frans Englich <frans.englich@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 09 June 2006 05:58, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >>>>> "Tom" == bitte um hilfe <bitte.um.hilfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>     Tom> E.g. how could I set an XPointer exactly in front of the
>     Tom> second <a> element (marked with * in the source code) or
>     Tom> exactly behind an element like the 4th </a> (marked with **).
>
>     Tom> Is this doable at all?
>
> It depends on the processor. But I am not sure what you mean by
> exactly behind or exactly in front of.
>
> You don't set XPointers - you use XPointers to refer to a fragment of
> a document in the URI you pass to the document() function.
>
>     Tom> Because in my opinion XSL is made to
>     Tom> navigate trough a given XML structure with the aim to access
>     Tom> embedded content and thatbs the reason why it
>     Tom> probably is not possible to access elements themselves (they
>     Tom> are structure rather than contentb&).
>
> No, you can access elements via any XPath expression.
>
>     Tom> At the moment the marking is done as follows: ? is the
>     Tom> paraphrase for * and the same holds for ?? which is the
>     Tom> paraphrase for ** This is doable, because Content within an
>     Tom> Element is accessible for sure - by using the text() as well
>     Tom> as the position() functions navigating is easy.
>
>     Tom> Does someone have a clue if it could work somehow?
>
> It depends upon which XSLT 2.0 processor you are using. As far as I
> know, there are none that support the XPointer scheme (which is not a
> W3C recommendation - only the element and xmlns schemes made the
> recommendation).

I think Mozilla implements it incompletely, and I've somewhere seen a
proprietary implementation listed as implementing it. Right, not exactly
mainstream..

> Gestalt has a gexslt:xpath2 scheme, so you could use that to select
> the nodes you want.

You should perhaps consider changing that to the W3C-registered scheme:

http://www.w3.org/2005/04/xpointer-schemes/


Cheers,

		Frans