Given the following xml,
<p style="Normal" tabs="0.2 1.2 2.2">
Once upon a time, there was a <b>dark</b> and <i>stormy</i> sea.
Nobody could be<br/>
certain what lay beneath it's churning surface.<br/>
<tab/>One<tab/>Green<tab/>Octopus<br/>
<tab/>Two<tab/>Red<tab/>Sharks<br/>
Or something far more sinister?
</p>
how do I say, from inside a br-match template:
"The number of br nodes, of the parent axis's p node, that have
immediately preceding siblings that are tab nodes"
I tried this, (and many other things besides) but it didn't work...
<xsl:variable name="rows"
select="count(parent::p/br::preceding-sibling::tab[1])"/>
This is not a valid Xpath statement. You need to use a predicate:
count(parent::p/br[preceding-sibling::tab[1]])
This will return the number "2" given your source XML.
HTH,
RG
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