RE: Getting all the values between empty elements

Err...you were right - way too optimistic of me.

I apologize!  I see what you are getting at with this solution, but I
gave far too little information, I'm afraid...and I can't seem to
translate what you've suggested into an application that will work for
my situation.

Here's a bit more information (that I am quite sure everyone is sick of
by now, but I can't quite get to the end of it):

XML:
<p style="Normal" tabs="0.2 1.2 2.7">
<tab/>A Few<tab/>Lime <c val="#0f0">Green</c><tab/>Octopii<br/>
<tab/>Two<tab/>Red<tab/>Sharks<br/>
<tab/><tab/><tab/>Or something far more sinister?<br/>
</p>

With some help from Ken and Andreas, and some of my own flailing about,
I came up with this XSL to do the "rows" of a table to format this:

<xsl:template match="ws:br" mode="rowcreate">
        <xsl:variable name="current-row" select="position()"/>
        <xsl:variable name="number-of-cells"
select="count(preceding-sibling::ws:tab) div $current-row"/>
        <xsl:variable name="lower-limit" select="($current-row - 1) *
$number-of-cells"/>
        <xsl:variable name="upper-limit" select="$current-row *
$number-of-cells"/>
        <fo:table-row>
                <xsl:for-each select="preceding-sibling::ws:tab">
                        <xsl:variable name="tab-number"
select="position()"/>
                        <xsl:if test="$tab-number>$lower-limit and
$tab-number&lt;=$upper-limit">
                                <xsl:choose>
                                        <xsl:when
test="./preceding-sibling::node()[1][name()='br' or name()='tab']">
                                                <fo:table-cell>
        
<fo:block>&#160;</fo:block>
                                                </fo:table-cell>
                                        </xsl:when>
                                        <xsl:otherwise>
                                                <fo:table-cell>
                                                        <fo:block>
        
<xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::text()[1]"/>                   
                                                        </fo:block>
                                                </fo:table-cell>
                                        </xsl:otherwise>
                                </xsl:choose>
                        </xsl:if>
                </xsl:for-each>
                <fo:table-cell>
                        <fo:block>
                                <xsl:value-of
select="preceding-sibling::text()[1]"/>
                        </fo:block>
                </fo:table-cell>        
        </fo:table-row>
</xsl:template> 

What I want to do is replace the <xsl:value-of
select="preceding-sibling::text()[1]"/> with an apply-templates on
everything between either a tab and another tab, or a br and a tab.  I
can't just loop through the preceding(or following) sibling tabs, or the
child of p tabs, because when I go through each "set" of tab-siblings, I
have to do different treatments to ensure that <br/> tags will end a
row.  That's what all that silly lower-limit and upper-limit business is
about...

Thanks,
KP




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