Re: need help outputing summary of head elements

  i used the former instead of the later, i'm having an
  error on the for statement in select (not a valid
  XPATH 2.0 expression).

It os valid (I checked) of course you need to declare the num: namespace
prefix 9to anything)

> I can't use this because the head element is of mixed
> content type 

That's OK as the string value of the element still has the roman numeral
as the first word. In your example it was a newline not a space so you
probably want

$ParentInfo//div/head[substring-before(normalize-space(.),'')=$strRoman].

Of course if your roman numerals are _always_ in a hi element as they
are in your sample it's even easier, you don't need substring at all,
just


$ParentInfo//div/head[hi[1]=$strRoman].

David

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