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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Determining if the first child is a para element
 At 10:15 AM 11/9/00 +0000, Jeni wrote: So, to test whether the first child node of the current node is an element, use: Also be careful in this case that you have accounted for the possibility of any whitespace-only text nodes. So, for example, if your document read: <CHAPTER> <para>Here's my first child element, a para.</para> ... </CHAPTER> Jeni's test above will fail on account of the whitespace-only text node preceding the para element (it contains a carriage return and two space characters). Adjust for this by saying <xsl:strip-space elements="CHAPTER"/> at the top level, or altering your test (somewhat horribly) to: <xsl:if test="child::node()[not(.=normalize-space(.))][1][self::para]"> ... </xsl:if> Jeni's test for whether the first element child is a para is still good, of course, since the whitespace-only nodes won't come into play then. Regards, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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