Subject: RE: [xsl] Selecting First Letter From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:06:10 +0100 |
> > <xsl:template match="text()"> > <xsl:variable name="initial" select="substring(.,1,1)"> > <b><xsl:value-of select="$initial"/></b> > <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(.,$initial)"/> > </xsl:template> > > should do it. (The rest would be an identity transform.) I suspect he didn't want to do it on every text node, perhaps only the first text node in a <p> element. So there might be a need to refine the conditions a bit: (a) in the above template, do something to test whether it's one of the text nodes you want to treat this way, e.g. by testing whether <xsl:number level="any" from="p"> is 1 or (b) in the template rule for the <p> element, process the descendants with a parameter set to the generate-id() of the first descendant text node, and test this parameter in the text template. Michael Kay > > Cheers, > Wendell > > At 01:33 PM 9/30/2003, you wrote: > >I would like to be able to select the > >first letter of the first text node > >within a hierarchy, e.g., the "S" here: > > > > <content> > > <p><a href="...">Some</a> Text</p> > > </content> > > > >and create a new element with that letter > >while keeping the rest of the structure > >as is, e.g: > > > > <content> > > <p><a href="..."><b>S</b>ome</a> Text</p> > > </content> > > > ====================================================================== > Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 > Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 > Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML > and XML > ====================================================================== > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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