Re: [xsl] preceding/following character?

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 20, 2005, at 5:24 AM, David Carlisle wrote:

> <xsl:template  
> match="cite[not(following-sibling::node()[1][self::text()[starts- 
> with(.,'.')]])]">
>  <xsl:apply-templates mode="clean" select="."/>
> </xsl:template>
>
>   <xsl:template  
> match="text()[preceding-sibling::node()[1][self::cite]][starts- 
> with(.,'.')]">
>         <xsl:text>.</xsl:text>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::cite[1]"  
> mode="clean"/>
>         <xsl:copy-of select="substring(.,2)"/>
>   </xsl:template>

Cool; thanks!  If I understand right, this has the advantage that it  
the separate templates makes it easier to use in the context of  
importing stylesheets.

> $ saxon cite.xml cite.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><div>
> Some text and more text .[XXX1] Some <EM>more</EM> text. Some text
> and more text .[XXX2]ffff[XXX3]
>
> Some text and more text [XXX1]<EM>. Some more</EM> text. Some text
> and more text .[XXX2]ffff[XXX3]
> </div>

If I could just ask one more question: how conceptually would I then  
remove the preceding (now superfluous) space?  Maybe use translate() to  
convert " ." to "."?

Bruce