RE: Detecting character combination in XML

//book[contains(desc, ' q')]/title

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Koch [mailto:TheRanger@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 24 July 2005 21:25
> To: Mulberry list
> Subject:  Detecting character combination in XML
> 
> Hello experts,
> 
> I have the following XML structure:
> 
> <bookshelf>
>   <book>
>     <title>A</book>
>     <desc>This qis an interesting qbook about...</desc>
>   </book>
>   <book>
>     <title>B</book>
>     <desc>This is another good book</desc>
>   </book>
> </bookshelf>
> 
> When you look at the description (desc) you can see that the 
> first text
> contains sometimes a "q" (non capital letters) before a word. 
> I would like a
> script that detects all books and return their titles, when 
> the description
> contrains a space and a q next to each other somewhere in the 
> text. This
> should be only if the q is a non-capital letter. I am using 
> Xalan and don't
> really want to change the parser for this task... 
> 
> This text output here would look that:
> 
> A
> 
> 
> I am aware that this might be sometimes incorrect but I just 
> want to use
> this output to crosscheck and support my manual work. 
> 
> Also, I have some variations for this:
> 
> variation a) I would like to detect the following ". q".
> variation b) I would like to detect teh following "? q".
> 
> Any help is highly appreciated,
> 
> Karl
> 
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