Re: manipulating text and not losing elements

> Only one
> question: shouldn't it be the ancestor axis and not preceding-sibing
> or am I misreading the predicates?

> ie something like
> text()[ancestor::node()[1][

ancestor::node()[1] can be written as parent::* but otherwise, yes, or
no, depending.

I correctly translated _my_ question into XSLT.

me> XSLT has no access to any tags, so first express that in terms of things
me> XSLT can see:

me> But what happens in the scenario where I want to remove the numbers
me> in the text node right after the indent1 and paragraph elements,

But I clearly hadn't looked too carefuly at the posted example
I translated
   right after the indent1 and paragraph tags,
into
   right after the indent1 and paragraph elements,
But of course the OP means start tag and so the translation should have
been
  first child of the indent1 and paragraph tags,

so something like this:



<xsl:template match="*[self::indent1 or self::paragraph]/
                     text()[1][starts-with(translate(.,'123456789','000000000'),'0')]">
 
David

Moral of the story:
 don't use the T-word when discussing XSLT, it only serves to confuse.

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