Just to show an alternative:

select="/textarea/node()[not(br)]"

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aron Bock" <aronbock@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 6:24 PM
Subject: RE:  XPath query syntax


> Jon, some variant of this should work.  You may also want to use 
> normalize-space().
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso8859-1"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>     <xsl:output method="xml"/>
> 
>     <xsl:template match="/">
>         <xsl:for-each select="/textarea/node()[name() != 'br']">
>             <line><xsl:copy-of select="."/></line>
>         </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> >From: jpk <jopaki@xxxxxxxxx>
> >I have source XML:
> >
> ><textarea>
> >   line 1<br/>
> >   line 2<br/>
> >   line 3<br/>
> >   line 4<br/>
> ></textarea>
> >
> >How do I query for each of the line texts?  That is, I
> >need to get each text [node] that preceeds all <br>
> >tags.
> 
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