Re: Child locations

Thanks David!

That got me going on the right track.

-Luke

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 21:42 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> > I'm trying to prevent the first occurrence of a child tag from line
> 
> XSLT has no access to the tags in a document, you mean child element.
> 
> 
>  <xsl:template match="amended/para">
> this will only match teh para, some other code may or may not match your
> catchline but you don't show it.
> 
>                 <xsl:for-each select = "child::node()">
> this is the same as
>                 <xsl:for-each select = "node()">
> 
> and selects all child nodes of the current para, in your exaple this is
> always a single text node.
> 
> <xsl:when test="child::node()[not(.=normalize-space(.))][1][self::para]
> the first sterp of this is selcting all child nodes of teh current text
> nodes, text nodes never have any children so thi sset will always be
> empty and test as false.
> 
> I think you want something like
> 
> <xsl:template match="ammended">
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="para"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="para">
> <fo:block>
> <xsl:if test="position()=1">
> <fo:inline>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::catchline"/>
> <xsl:text> </xsl>text>
> </fo:inline>
> </xsl:if>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </fo:block>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> David