RE: preceding/following character?

One solution to this kind of problem is to replace the markup by text, and
then treat it as an analyze-string problem:

<xsl:template match="bar">
  <xsl:text>%bar%</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="foo">
  <foo_out>
    <xsl:variable name="temp" as="xs:string">
      <xsl:value-of>
         <xsl:apply-templates/>
      </xsl:value-of>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:analyze-string select="$temp" regex="%bar%\.">
      <xsl:matching-substring>
        <xsl:text>. </xsl:text>
        <bar_out/>
      </
    </
  </
</

An alternative approach is to treat it as a positional grouping problem:

<xsl:for-each-group select="node()" 
  group-starting-with="bar[starts-with(following-sibling::node()[1], '.')]">
  <xsl:text>. </xsl:text>
  <bar_out/>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(current-group()[2], '.')"/>
  <xsl:copy-of select="current-group()[position() gt 2]"/>
</xsl:for-each-group>

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce D'Arcus [mailto:bdarcus@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 17 June 2005 02:11
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  preceding/following character?
> 
> Say I have source with mixed content like:
> 
> <foo>Some text and more text <bar/>. Some more text.</foo>
> 
> I need a "bar" matched template that will under certain 
> conditions move 
> that period that immediately follows the element to be ahead it.
> 
> E.g., in some conditions, output would be:
> 
> <foo_out>Some text and more text.<bar_out/> Some more text.</foo_out>
> 
> This seems like a simple problem, but I can't really fathom how to 
> solve it.  I'm using XSLT 2.0.
> 
> Bruce