Re: [xsl] manipulating text and not losing elements

Subject: Re: [xsl] manipulating text and not losing elements
From: Jon Gorman <jonathan.gorman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:13:01 -0500
> then it's easy to see that this is just a match pattern:
>
> <xsl:template match="text()[preceding-sibling::node()
>                              [1]
>                              [self::indent1 or self::paragraph]
>                             ]
>
[starts-with(translate(.,'123456789','000000000'),'0')]">
>  <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(.,' ')"/>
> </xsl:template>

Ohhhhhhhhh.  Nice.  I tend to avoid match patterns like this probably
just out of habit but it's better advice then mine was.  Only one
question: shouldn't it be the ancestor axis and not preceding-sibing
or am I misreading the predicates?

ie something like
text()[ancestor::node()[1][self::indent1 or self::paragraph]

since the text node will be contained by the indent or the paragraph?


Jon Gorman

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