Re: manipulating text and not losing elements

Hi Guys,

Thank you all for the responses.  Right off the bat I got Joe's
initial solution working. I am now going through the other solutions,
getting working examples of each put together. Joe, you first
mentioned that there had been other faqs about this, although I didn't
find any, I don't doubt this. Sooo if anyone has problems in the
future and wants a working example of any of the solutions above, feel
free to drop a post.

Thanks again everyone,

Spencer

On 10/13/05, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Only one
> > question: shouldn't it be the ancestor axis and not preceding-sibing
> > or am I misreading the predicates?
>
> > ie something like
> > text()[ancestor::node()[1][
>
> ancestor::node()[1] can be written as parent::* but otherwise, yes, or
> no, depending.
>
> I correctly translated _my_ question into XSLT.
>
> me> XSLT has no access to any tags, so first express that in terms of
things
> me> XSLT can see:
>
> me> But what happens in the scenario where I want to remove the numbers
> me> in the text node right after the indent1 and paragraph elements,
>
> But I clearly hadn't looked too carefuly at the posted example
> I translated
>    right after the indent1 and paragraph tags,
> into
>    right after the indent1 and paragraph elements,
> But of course the OP means start tag and so the translation should have
> been
>   first child of the indent1 and paragraph tags,
>
> so something like this:
>
>
>
> <xsl:template match="*[self::indent1 or self::paragraph]/
>
text()[1][starts-with(translate(.,'123456789','000000000'),'0')]">
>
> David
>
> Moral of the story:
>  don't use the T-word when discussing XSLT, it only serves to confuse.
>
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