Re: Passing element nodes through string functions (WAS RE: [xsl] Preserving inline elements when using string functions)

[Tom Schutzer-Weissmann <xsl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 18:35, Brook Ellingwood wrote:
...
> Secondly, I'm revisiting this problem that David provided a solution for,
> and I've found case where it breaks down. If the last line (set off by
> &#10;) contains a <link> followed by unlinked text, the string after the
> </link> is dropped. Basically, the recursive loop is stopping one recursion
> too soon. I've tried a few ways of including the substring in the
> <xsl:otherwise> escape from the loop, but haven't gotten it right, and I'm
> not sure that I'm on the right track. I'd appreciate any insight.

> <xsl:value-of
> select="substring-before(key('x',generate-id(.))[last()],'&#10;')"/>
-----------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If the last node returned by the key doesn't contain a newline (this is the 
case for the very last div), then you won't get any of it at all.
So just include this special case...

 <xsl:if test="position() = last()">
                  <xsl:value-of
                  select="key('x',generate-id(.))[last()]"/>
                </xsl:if>

or sort out the source...
perl -pi.bak -e 
	'$go = 1 if (/<text>/); s/(.*<text>|^)(.*?)($|<\/text>)/$1<div>$2<\/div>$3/ 
if $go; s/<div>\W*<\/div>//; $go = 0 if (/<\/text>/);' source.xml

hth
Tom SW
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