At 2012-05-13 23:17 +0200, Jorge wrote:
> And, you are looking for the adjacent node (which in your example
is a text node), rather than the adjacent element (unless you are
invoking saxon with the option to strip white-space text nodes from
your input, in which case that is not true).
No I wasn't invoking saxon with such option, but did try nevertheless to use:
<xsl:strip-space elements="plist dict"/>
and
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
Still, even with or without those, if I assigned a value to the
string, the function did capture it and showed it in the output of
my original stylesheet in either case. Why does following::node()[1]
return the string's value in both cases then?
I see now that saxon was doing it by default. When I add -strip:none
to the invocation then your code fails.
> BTW, I very rarely ever have to address text() nodes
Well, I did that to try to force the function to return a string
instead of a tree :-/
But the normalize-space() returns a string, so how you address the
content is irrelevant. It isn't that you were addressing a text node
that a text node was returned, it was that your function was
returning a tree with a text node created from the string output from
normalize-space(). Your code was expecting the string to be
returned. It is very subtle and it comes up in class.
As you can see there are still concepts of XSL that I am not quite
grasping yet.
If you have the time I have posted 5 free hours of my XSLT training video here:
http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/udemy.htm
... where you do not need to create a username in order to view free
content ... just close the sign-up dialogue box. The free stuff is
mostly introductory, so this particular issue is not covered, but you
might find other tips.
More than appreciated. I simply wanted to discourage answers that
focused on issues that did not address my main question. Please
excuse me for the prejudice.
No apology necessary ... I'm just trying to keep things found in the
archive from pointing readers the "wrong" way.
Good luck in your project!
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
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