Re: following-sibling

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Steve Tinney wrote:

> > However, I have found that this is not the case -- XT/SAXON seem to
> > to think that the text() following-siblings are not actually siblings.
> 
> It's difficult to tell without a clear example of your XSL, but perhaps
> you are using '*' to select the children; that would not select text()
> nodes.  Use select="*|text()" instead.

To select these specific nodes I am using 
<xsl:template zmatch="body/text()">
 
> Alternatively (or also), are there whitespace-only text nodes getting in
> there to confuse your count?  If so, can you fix things up with
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>?

That is actually one of the very first things in my stylesheet.

Despite Dave's diagram of the children and siblings, I am still in the
dark here!

-carole
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