Hi there,
I'm attempting (using XSL 1.0 and Saxon 6.5.5) to do drop-caps by
matching the first text element in the first paragraph of the second
div0 in a TEI document. Where the text node is a direct child of the p
tag, this works:
<xsl:template match="div0[2]/p[1]/text()[1]">
However, where another tag intervenes in the tree, this fails:
<div0>
<p>
<title>Blah</title> was published in...
</p>
</div0>
Here, the first text node is the one following the title tag, which is
wrong. So what I want to do is select the first text node which is a
descendant (rather than a direct child) of the p tag. I just can't find
a way to do this. If I use this:
<xsl:template match="div0[2]/p[1]/descendant::text()[1]">
oXygen complains that "Axis in pattern must be child or attribute",
meaning presumably that only element nodes, not text nodes, can be
selected using this axis. If I use this:
<xsl:template match="div0[2]/p[1]//text()[1]">
then I get all text nodes which are the first child of their parents,
rather than only the first text node which is a descendant of the p tag.
Can anyone suggest how to go about selecting the first text node which
is a descendant of the p tag?
All help appreciated,
Martin
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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes(_at_)uvic(_dot_)ca)
Half-Baked Software, Inc.
(mholmes(_at_)halfbakedsoftware(_dot_)com)
martin(_at_)mholmes(_dot_)com
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