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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Determining if the first child is a para element
 At 02:41 PM 11/9/00 +0000, I wrote: <xsl:if test="child::node()[not(.=normalize-space(.))][1][self::para]"> ... </xsl:if> But of course after seeing Mike Kay's nice test in another thread, I realized a slightly more elegant and efficient version would be <xsl:if test="child::node()[normalize-space(.)][1][self::para]"> ... </xsl:if> ...which reveals further complications (funny how these things are). We have to make sure it's skipped only if it's a whitespace-only _text_ node (not, say, an empty element node). So.... <xsl:if test="child::node()[not(self::text()) or normalize-space(.)][1][self::para]"> ... </xsl:if> The first predicate evaluates to true if the child node is not a text node or if it has a non-whitespace string value. The second chooses the first of these. The third checks to see whether it's a para element. For evident reasons, that <xsl:strip-space .../> at the top level will be preferable, if you can use it. Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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