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From Kurt.Devlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Wed Jan 10 11:52:57 2001

I need to remove some PCDATA prior to a specified element. I am rendering my
XML to HTML. In the main section I want all the information shown. In the
table of references that gets generated at the end of the document, I want
to strip certain elements and the PCDATA that appears directly before that
element.

Currently, I have templates that ignore the elements that I'm not
interested, but I'm not sure how to get to the PCDATA before this element.

I have created a simple example of what I want to do below. In this example
it would be simple to just look at the elements that I do want, but in my
real project there are too many elements that I do want. I really only want
to add a couple of templates to handle ignoring the element and its
preceding PCDATA.

Regards,
Kurt
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Simple Example
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DTD
<!ELEMENT book (#PCDATA | title | author | date)* >
<!ELEMENT title|author|date (#PCDATA) >

XML
<book><title>My Book</title>, <author>Me</author>,
<date>01-01-01</date></book>

HTML (main section)
<u>My Book</u>, Me, (01-01-01)

HTML (reference section)
<u>My Book</u>, Me
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