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Subject: Re: testing element's contents
From: Nathan Shaw <n8_shaw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:09:03 -0700 (PDT)
yahoo.com 2007 nathan
looks like this may be it?

test="(((descendant::*[1])[self::Link] and
(descendant::*[2])[self::Media]) or
(descendant::*[1])[self::Media]) and
(not(descendant-or-self::*))"

pretty convoluted though, and I am still not sure it
is completely correct...

--nate


--- Nathan Shaw <n8_shaw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on my previous
> post about images and captions. Now, I have another
> tricky lil' xslt problem. If a paragraph element
> contains ONLY a media element OR a media element
> surrounded by a link element and nothing more (read,
> no other nodes, be they text or not), such as:
> 
> <p><img
> src="http://www.mylocal.gov/images/nasausa.gif"
> height="255" width="432"/></p>
> 
> I need to strip the p tags out of resulting output.
> 
> However, if it does contain other nodes, such as:
> 
> <p><img
> src="http://www.mylocal.gov/images/nasausa.gif"
> height="255" width="432"/>This is my news release.
> The
> authors will be typing the news release content in
> here! I am not sure what this news release is even
> about, but lets see how it comes out in XML, shall
> we?
> As I see it coming out as:</p>
> 
> I need to leave it alone.
> 
> Here is what I have so far. It only looks to see if
> a
> media element or a media element wrapped by a link
> element exists, but does not consider if there is a
> text node after a media or link element.
> 
> <xsl:template match="p">
> <xsl:choose>
> 	<xsl:when test="((descendant::*[1])[self::Link] and
> (descendant::*[2])[self::Media]) or
>
(descendant::*[1])[self::Media]"><xsl:apply-templates
> /></xsl:when>
> 	<xsl:otherwise><p><xsl:apply-templates
> /></p></xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Thoughts? Ideas? Criticisms?
> 
> --nate
> 
> 
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