[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] using a fancy character for the first letter of a para
almost certainly a misunderstanding on my part, but i was perusing "XSLT (2nd ed)" by kay, and i was puzzled by his template to use a fancy letter graphic for the first letter of a paragraph (p. 128): <xsl:template match="para"> <p><img src="fancy{substring(.,1,1)}.gif"> <xsl:value-of select="substring(.,2)" /></p> </xsl:template> ignoring any transcription errors on my part, i can see how this would incorporate a fancy letter graphic for the paragraph's first letter, but what about the rest of the paragraph? if there's more markup (say, with docbook), it would seem that none of the markup in the rest of the paragraph would be processed. stuff like <emphasis> or <firstterm> or stuff like that since, after that graphic image, all that follows is the substring of the remaining string value. am i missing something here? or does this snippet above not deal with further markup in the same paragraph? rday XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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