It picks up the bullet points no problem. I am still having
difficulty selecting the previous node. So far I have thisL
<xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::Child[1]" /> But it
doesn't work.
The preceding sibling in your example was called P, not Child.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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From: "Michael Kay" <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 3:03 PM
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Subject: RE: [xsl] Testing for special characters
Your test:
<xsl:if test="P='. '">
tests whether any child::P of the context node is equal to
". ". This
isn't very useful if you are positioned on the <Sect>
element, and it
isn't at all useful if you are positioned on the "P"
element. The most
likely explanation is that you are using this test "in the wrong
place".
The problem has nothing to do with special characters (At least I
assume
so:
it's possible that the character in question is not really
"." at all,
but some other character that has not made it through to the email).
It's hard to propose a solution without seeing a wider selection of
the possible inputs that need to be processed.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Graeme Kidd [mailto:coolkidd3(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 02 January 2009 14:36
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Testing for special characters
Hi,
I have used Adobe Acrobat to export a PDF as XML and I am
wanting to
convert it.
Sometime it displays an unordered list like this:
<Sect>
<P>List: </P>
<P>Item 1; </P>
<P>. </P>
<P>Item 2; </P>
<P>. </P>
<P>Item 3; </P>
<P>. </P>
</Sect>
Which I am trying to convert to this:
<Sect>
<P>List:</P>
<UL>
<LI>Item 1; </LI>
<LI>Item 2; </LI>
<LI>Item 3; </LI>
</UL>
</Sect>
The best I can think of is to check if there is a bullet
point then
use the previous <P> node. At the moment I am having trouble just
checking if there is a bullet point as this doesn't seem to work:
<xsl:if test="P='. '">
I am thinking it might be because it is a special character.
I have tried specifying the output as UTF-8 <xsl:output
method="xml"
indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
But that didn't seem to help, so does anyone else have any ideas?
Thanks
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