Mick,
The simplest XPath test to check whether the immediately preceding sibling
is a 'nospace' is:
preceding-sibling::*[1][self::nospace]
which retrieves the nospace node (which evaluates to Boolean "true") if the
immediately preceding node is a nospace; if not, it retrieves nothing
(which evaluates to Boolean "false").
If you want to be *really* fancy:
substring(" _",1 + preceding-sibling::*[1][self::nospace], 1)
will give you a " " or a "_" depending on what the immediate preceding
sibling is (since a Boolean false or true becomes the number 0 or 1 when
you try to add it).
Cheers,
Wendell
At 10:59 AM 10/20/2003, you wrote:
What I want to do is to present the contents of the line; where a word
is *not* preceded by a <nospace/> tag, I want to put a space, where it
*is* preceded by a <nospace/> tag, I want to display an underscore.
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