Hi Folks,
I want to know if an XHTML document contains a non-empty paragraph (p) element
that is preceded by a long, uninterrupted series of paragraph elements, each
containing just a non-blocking space character (decimal 160). Let's assume that
"long" means 20. For example, here is an excerpt of an XHTML document:
<body>
<p>Text at top</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Text at bottom</p>
</body>
The query should return this:
<p>Text at bottom</p>
because it is preceded by a long, uninterrupted series of paragraph elements,
each containing just a non-blocking space character.
Here's a query that returns the desired paragraph element:
//p[string-length(.) gt 1][count(preceding-sibling::p[. eq ' ']) ge 20]
However, if I insert a non-empty paragraph element in the middle of that long
series:
<body>
<p>Text at top</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Other text</p> <------------
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Text at bottom</p>
</body>
then my query erroneously returns the same paragraph element. That is, my XPath
query does not account for the requirement that the long series of paragraph
elements be uninterrupted. How to write an XPath 2.0 query for this?
/Roger
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