At 2007-11-01 13:34 +0000, Andrew Welch wrote:



On 01/11/2007, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Then I recommend you change it to the following:
>
>    match="s[(ancestor::b[1]//text()[normalize-space()])[last()] >> .]"
>
> ... so that you catch text nodes that have non-white-space
> characters, or alternatively that you ensure all white-space-only
> text nodes are removed from the source tree by either an
> <xsl:strip-space> instruction or at invocation.
>
> I'm thinking that with the original proposal any indentation found in
> the source tree would allow the <s> to be matched.

you sure?

Yes, I'm quite sure.  It was obvious by visually inspecting the 
sample input XML ... there are so many text nodes there.  Did you run 
your own suggestion as a test?



Here, let me take the time to do it for you ... the answer is below.



I was only trying to help.  If I've misunderstood the original 
poster's question, then I withdraw my suggestion and I apologize.



. . . . . . . . . . . Ken







t:\ftemp>type sascha.xml
<a>
  aaa
  <b>
      bbb
      <c>
          ccc
          <s/>
      </c>
      BBB
  </b>
  AAA
  <b>
      bbb
      <c>
          ccc
          <s/>
      </c>
  </b>
   AAA
</a>

t:\ftemp>type sascha.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="2.0">

<xsl:output method="text"/>



<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="//s"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="s">
  <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>: no
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="s[(ancestor::b[1]//text())[last()] >> .]">
    <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>: yes
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>call saxon8 sascha.xml sascha.xsl

t:\ftemp>java -Xms200m -Xmx700m -jar p:\xml\xslt\saxon8\saxon8.jar 
sascha.xml sascha.xsl

1: yes

2: yes



t:\ftemp>type sascha2.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="2.0">

<xsl:output method="text"/>



<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="//s"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="s">
  <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>: no
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template 
match="s[(ancestor::b[1]//text()[normalize-space()])[last()] >> .]">

    <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>: yes

</xsl:template>



</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>call saxon8 sascha.xml sascha2.xsl

t:\ftemp>java -Xms200m -Xmx700m -jar p:\xml\xslt\saxon8\saxon8.jar 
sascha.xml sascha2.xsl

1: yes

2: no



t:\ftemp>rem Done!




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