With this template
<xsl:template
match="submission.excerpt//node()/@*|submission.excerpt//node()">
<xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="./@*|./node()" /></xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
have I made it impossible to also transform (inline) the last occurring
textnode beneath submission.excerpt/node()?
So far all my recursion attempts (looking for node()[last()][self::text()]
at each level) have yielded 3 variations: *only* the last text(), everything
*except* the last text(), or the whole thing and then the last text()
appended again.
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="./node()[last()][self::text()]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="./@*|./node()[position() != last()]" />
<xsl:value-of select="./node()[last()]" />...
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<!-- look again next level, etc -->
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
It's meant to take an XHTML string (truncated from db then made well-formed
again by PHP5's loadHTML method) and replace the end of the last text() --
after the last occuring space character -- with an ellipsis, which I've now
heard 3x is 'impossible' in XSLT 1.0 but it's not official till I've heard
it here.
Undying gratitude,
-Adam.
_________________________________________________________________
Take advantage of powerful junk e-mail filters built on patented Microsoft.
SmartScreen Technology.
http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines
Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN. Premium right now and get the
first two months FREE*.