Re: [xsl] Need XPath 2.0 expression which returns a non-empty paragraph

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Re: [xsl] Need XPath 2.0 expression which returns a non-empty paragraph element that is preceded by a long uninterrupted series of empty paragraph elements

2019-11-25 14:07:55

from [Peter Flynn peter(_at_)silmaril(_dot_)ie]

On 25/11/2019 19:39, Costello, Roger L. costello(_at_)mitre(_dot_)org wrote:
[snip]

That is, my XPath query does not account for the requirement thatthe long series of paragraph elements be uninterrupted. How to write
an XPath 2.0 query for this?

preceding-sibling() count *any* preceding sibling, not contiguouspreceding siblings

I think you need to locate the closest preceding element that is *not*empty of text, and the count the elements between that and your contextelement, eg:


   count(preceding-sibling::p[.!='&#160;'][1]
     /following-sibling::p[.='&#160;'])

That should return 24 for your first example and 9 for the second.


P
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