[xsl] Re: Test character immediately preceding node

[Nathan Tallman <ntallman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, Dimitre and David.

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Nathan Tallman <ntallman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it possible to test a character immediately preceding a node? I
> have an element with child-elements, my trouble is that sometimes
> there is a space before the child-element, sometimes not. For example
> I might have:
>
> <unittitle>Statements <unitdate>2001</unitdate></unittitle>
> or
> <unittitle>Statements<unitdate>2001</unitdate></unittitle>
>
> The XSLT that I'm forking from has instructions to insert a space
> before <unitdate>, which sometimes results in two spaces in the
> output. I'd like to use an xsl:choose to test for a space immediately
> preceding <unitdate>. Is this possible? I'm using XSLT 2.0.
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan