RE: Checking the text nodes just preceding the context

Well that seems to have worked exactly as I'd hoped (once I took out the
debug code that was REALLY messing with my mind.). 

Thanks. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 9:00 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Checking the text nodes just preceding the context
> 
> 
> Hip hei!
> 
> [...]
> > Now I can guarantee that <foo> will be child of <p> but 
> nothing else. 
> > 
> > Any ideas how to do this?
> 
> I don't undestand that quarentee part of your question, but this
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>                 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
> <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="foo">
>   <xsl:variable name="text"
> select="normalize-space(preceding::text()[normalize-space() 
> != ''][1])" />
>   <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="substring($text, string-length($text)) =
> '.'">Foo</xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>foo</xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> will do the capitalization - just retrive the first preceding 
> text node that
> is not whitespace, normalize that, and then test if the last 
> character is a
> period. Hope this helps,
> 
> Jarno
> 
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