Re: [xsl] detecting a colon (':') within a para

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Naomi,

XPath has no function ends-with() to complement its starts-with() function, 
but it does have a substring() function that can be used for this. It takes 
three arguments: a string, an offset and a length. If you set the offset to 
the length of the string, and the length to 1, you get the last character.

So you might have:

<xsl:template match="para">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:copy>
  <xsl:if test="substring(.,string-length(.),1) = ':'">
    <xsl:processing-instruction name="keep-together"/>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

etc. Note nothing is being done here to normalize for errant whitespace; 
the normalize-space() function will help if you have to account for that.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 11:18 AM 6/29/2004, you wrote:
> Is there anyway to find the following scenario:
>
> <para>The following items you really need to
> know:</para>
>
> I'd like to be able to find all para's that have a
> colon as their last character and insert a processing
> instruction to tell the output-formatter not to allow
> a page break.  I use processing instructions in many
> other scenarios, but I've never had to look an
> elements actual content.  Any suggestions would be
> appreciated.


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