Re: match string

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Subject: Re: match string
From: Anton Triest <anton@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:39:37 +0200

Zsolt Szabs wrote:

I have modified my template, because like you said I had lost the markup in para[1]

1. <xsl:template match="chapter/section[1]/para[1]/*[1]/text()[1]" priority="1">
2.
<xsl:template match="para">
but now the output of the first paragraph looks like>
 Three words are here 
it is because I have a template for the first paragraphs first tag text()
and a template for every paragraph, with matches para[1] too

Yes (like David says): in the template matching text() you don't need a p element node anymore.

how can I solve this problem?

On Oct 19, 2004, at 3:04 PM, David Carlisle wrote:
Also, in this case you probably want to match on the first text node of
the first para rather than the para itself as in
<xsl:template match="chapter/section[1]/para[1]//text()[1]" priority="1">
As you have it, you are doing string operations on the entire paragraph
text which means that any element markup within the paragraph will be
lost.

There's another problem. I thought "//text()[1]" would give "the first text node (inside that first paragraph) however deeply nested in any markup". But instead, it seems to return the first text node of *all* the nested markup. Example:

<input> <para>A paragraph without any markup</para> <para>A paragraph with some markup inside</para> <para>A paragraph with some nested markup</para> <para>This is a special case: paragraph starts with markup</para> <para>This is difficult: only the first word has markup</para> </input>

<output> <para><first>A paragraph without </first>any markup</para> <para><first>A paragraph with </first>some<first>markup</first> inside</para> <para><first>A paragraph with </first>some<first>nested</first><first>markup</first></para> <para><first>This is a </first>special case<first>: paragraph starts </first>with markup</para> <para><first>This</first><first>is difficult: only </first>the first word has markup</para> </output>

Zsolt, I see that you changed this to "/*[1]/text()[1]" but that gives

<output> <para>A paragraph without any markup</para> <para>A paragraph with some <first>markup</first> inside</para> <para>A paragraph with some nested<first>markup</first></para> <para><first>This is a </first>special case: paragraph starts with markup</para> <para><first>This</first> is difficult: only the first word has markup</para> </output>

your solution works, but it is to complicated for me. I need time to exactly understand it.

Don't worry Zsolt, it's getting complicated for me too! :-) It think I also need some time to work this out

Best regards
Anton

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