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 Well, a predicate using name()='p' is bad news because it depends on namespace prefixes, which are arbitrary. Use self::p, assuming it's a no-namespace element, or self::xhtml:p if its in the XHTML namespace. You could also do something like > //p[o:p eq ' '][every $p in following-sibling::*[position() le 10] satisfies $p[self::p/o:p eq ' ']] Michael Kay > On 14 Oct 2019, at 18:09, Costello, Roger L. costello@xxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > As you may know, when a formatted email message is created in Outlook, Outlook generates HTML under the hood. > > I am trying to determine if a formatted email message has text at the bottom of the email message that is separated from the rest of the email by a lot of space. In other words, the text at the bottom of the underlying HTML is preceded by a bunch of non-blocking space characters ( ). > > Assume the HTML has been converted to XHTML. > > I need an XPath 2.0 expression that identifies a long block of non-blocking space characters. > > Outlook generates HTML like that shown below. The non-blocking space character is nested inside an <o:p> element, which is nested inside a <p> element. > > I came up with this XPath expression: > > //p[o:p eq ' '][count(following-sibling::*[position() le 10][name() eq 'p'][o:p eq ' ']) ge 10][1] > > It says, "Give me the first <p> element containing a non-blocking space character such that there are at least 10 <p> elements that immediately follow it, each containing a non-blocking space character." At least, that's what I think it says. Note: 10 is an arbitrary number. > > Questions: > 1. Do you see any problems with the XPath expression? > 2. Is there a better XPath expression? > > <html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"> > <p class="MsoNormal">top text<o:p/></p> > <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> > <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> > <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> > <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> > <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> > <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> > <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> > <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> > <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> > <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> > <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> > <p class="MsoNormal">bottom text<o:p/></p> > </html> 
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