Woops silly me, I shouldn't try and learn new things when I am tired.
Anyway thanks again you have been a great help.

Graeme



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From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 4:27 PM
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [xsl] Testing for special characters

It picks up the bullet points no problem. I am still having 
difficulty selecting the previous node. So far I have thisL 
<xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::Child[1]" /> But it 
doesn't work.

The preceding sibling in your example was called P, not Child.



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


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From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 3:03 PM
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [xsl] Testing for special characters

> Your test:

>

> <xsl:if test="P='. '">

>

> tests whether any child::P of the context node is equal to 
". ". This 
> isn't very useful if you are positioned on the <Sect> 
element, and it 
> isn't at all useful if you are positioned on the "P" 
element. The most 
> likely explanation is that you are using this test "in the wrong 
> place".

>

> The problem has nothing to do with special characters (At least I 
> assume

> so:

> it's possible that the character in question is not really 
"." at all, 
> but some other character that has not made it through to the email).

>

> It's hard to propose a solution without seeing a wider selection of 
> the possible inputs that need to be processed.

>

> Michael Kay

> http://www.saxonica.com/

>

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: Graeme Kidd [mailto:coolkidd3@xxxxxxxxxxx]

>> Sent: 02 January 2009 14:36

>> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>> Subject: [xsl] Testing for special characters

>>

>> Hi,

>> I have used  Adobe Acrobat to export a PDF as XML and I am 
wanting to 
>> convert it.

>> Sometime it displays an unordered list like this:

>>

>> <Sect>

>>     <P>List: </P>

>>     <P>Item 1; </P>

>>     <P>. </P>

>>     <P>Item 2; </P>

>>     <P>. </P>

>>     <P>Item 3; </P>

>>     <P>. </P>

>> </Sect>

>>

>> Which I am trying to convert to this:

>>

>> <Sect>

>>     <P>List:</P>

>>     <UL>

>>         <LI>Item 1; </LI>

>>         <LI>Item 2; </LI>

>>         <LI>Item 3; </LI>

>>     </UL>

>> </Sect>

>>

>> The best I can think of is to check if there is a bullet 
point then 
>> use the previous <P> node.  At the moment I am having trouble just 
>> checking if there is a bullet point as this doesn't seem to work:

>> <xsl:if test="P='. '">

>>

>> I am thinking it might be because it is a special character.

>> I have tried specifying the output as UTF-8 <xsl:output 
method="xml" 
>> indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />

>>

>> But that didn't seem to help, so does anyone else have any ideas?

>> Thanks