[xsl] Checking the text nodes just preceding the context

[Adam Van Den Hoven <Adam.Hoven@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, 

I have a series of prose documents that have some semantic markup that will
be replaced with a string. Since I need to maintain proper capitalization I
need to check the text that immediately precedes the context to see if it
ends in a period ( or a period and a space). 

So lets say I have the following:

<doc>
	<p> some interesting text here. Some <foo/> more intersting text</p>
	<p> some interesting text here. <foo/> some more intersting text</p>
	<p> some interesting <b>text here.</b> <foo/> Some more intersting
text</p>
	<p> some interesting text here. <b><foo /> some</b> more intersting
text</p>
</doc>

The output of this should be be (assuming an identity transform as the
basis):


<doc>
	<p> some interesting text here. Some foo more intersting text</p>
	<p> some interesting text here. Foo some more intersting text</p>
	<p> some interesting <b>text here.</b> Foo Some more intersting
text</p>
	<p> some interesting text here. <b>Foo some</b> more intersting
text</p>
</doc>

Now I can guarantee that <foo> will be child of <p> but nothing else. 

Any ideas how to do this?

Adam van den Hoven
Internet Software Developer
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