Robert P. J. Day wrote:
am i missing something here? or does this snippet above
not deal with further markup in the same paragraph?
You are correct. Without trying it, I think you'd have to handle all
nodes (not just elements) within the paragraph context so you could
apply the first-character processing to the first character of the first
text node.
Cheers,
E.
--
W. Eliot Kimber, eliot(_at_)isogen(_dot_)com
Consultant, ISOGEN International
1016 La Posada Dr., Suite 240
Austin, TX 78752 Phone: 512.656.4139
XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list