Subject: RE: [xsl] Selecting first descendant text node From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:38:41 -0000 |
> >>So, how do I select the first (in document order) of all of the > >>descendant text nodes of an element? > > > >(item//text())[1] should do that. > > Probably the expression is correct for XPath, but my XSLT > processor (as > mentioned, Xalan 2.1.0) reports an parse/expression error if > I put this > into the match attribute. Is this a bug of that processor? > It's a valid expression but not a valid pattern. The match attribute of xsl:template expects a pattern. If you really want to write a pattern that matches any text node that is the first descendant text node of an item, you can write it as text()[generate-id()=generate-id((ancestor::item//text())[1])] But I wouldn't; I would find a different way of solving the problem. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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