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 One solution (not optimized for speed or brevity:
/*/p
[normalize-space(translate(., '  ', ''))
and
(every $i in 1 to 20
satisfies
preceding-sibling::p[position() eq $i and
not(normalize-space(translate(., '  ', '')))]
)
]
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:38 AM Costello, Roger L. costello@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I want to know if an XHTML document contains a non-empty paragraph (p)
> element that is preceded by a long, uninterrupted series of paragraph
> elements, each containing just a non-blocking space character (decimal
> 160). Let's assume that "long" means 20. For example, here is an excerpt of
> an XHTML document:
>
> <body>
> <p>Text at top</p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p>Text at bottom</p>
> </body>
>
> The query should return this:
>
> <p>Text at bottom</p>
>
> because it is preceded by a long, uninterrupted series of paragraph
> elements, each containing just a non-blocking space character.
>
> Here's a query that returns the desired paragraph element:
>
> //p[string-length(.) gt 1][count(preceding-sibling::p[. eq ' ']) ge
> 20]
>
> However, if I insert a non-empty paragraph element in the middle of that
> long series:
>
> <body>
> <p>Text at top</p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p>Other text</p> <------------
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p> </p>
> <p>Text at bottom</p>
> </body>
>
> then my query erroneously returns the same paragraph element. That is, my
> XPath query does not account for the requirement that the long series of
> paragraph elements be uninterrupted. How to write an XPath 2.0 query for
> this?
>
> /Roger
>
>
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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