Re: [xsl] Need an XPath 2.0 expression that identifies a lon

for $nb in '&#160;'
      return
        (p[. eq $nb and following-sibling::*[position() le 10][self::p]][.
eq $nb])[1]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 10:08 AM Costello, Roger L. costello@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> As you may know, when a formatted email message is created in Outlook,
> Outlook generates HTML under the hood.
>
> I am trying to determine if a formatted email message has text at the
> bottom of the email message that is separated from the rest of the email by
> a lot of space. In other words, the text at the bottom of the underlying
> HTML is preceded by a bunch of non-blocking space characters (&#160;).
>
> Assume the HTML has been converted to XHTML.
>
> I need an XPath 2.0 expression that identifies a long block of
> non-blocking space characters.
>
> Outlook generates HTML like that shown below. The non-blocking space
> character is nested inside an <o:p> element, which is nested inside a <p>
> element.
>
> I came up with this XPath expression:
>
> //p[o:p eq '&#160;'][count(following-sibling::*[position() le 10][name()
> eq 'p'][o:p eq '&#160;']) ge 10][1]
>
> It says, "Give me the first <p> element containing a non-blocking space
> character such that there are at least 10 <p> elements that immediately
> follow it, each containing a non-blocking space character." At least,
> that's what I think it says. Note: 10 is an arbitrary number.
>
> Questions:
> 1. Do you see any problems with the XPath expression?
> 2. Is there a better XPath expression?
>
> <html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
>     <p class="MsoNormal">top text<o:p/></p>
>     <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&#160;</o:p></p>
>     <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&#160;</o:p></p>
>     <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&#160;</o:p></p>
>     <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&#160;</o:p></p>
>     <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&#160;</o:p></p>
>     <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&#160;</o:p></p>
>     <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&#160;</o:p></p>
>     <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&#160;</o:p></p>
>     <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&#160;</o:p></p>
>     <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&#160;</o:p></p>
>     <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&#160;</o:p></p>
>     <p class="MsoNormal">bottom text<o:p/></p>
> </html>
> 
>


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