Thanks,
James

From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Remove text Up to Full Stop
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:11:52 +0100

                <xsl:for-each select="//**">
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="article"/>

That's a syntax error, as an Xpath expression can't end with ** (The
second * is a multiplication operator, and needs a second operand.

You could have

                <xsl:for-each select="//*">
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="article"/>

But that would mean search the entire document and find every element,
and for each elelemt, apply templates to that elements article children.
I doubt you really want that. You didn't show enough of your input
document for me to suggest what you do want here.

also you have

$extract!='extract u

The byte before extract is hex 85, which encoding are you using for your
stylesheet?

To remove the space after the last . If you are using xslt2 then you can
apply a simple regex, something like replace(extract,'\.[^\.*]','.')
otherwise in xslt1 you need either an extension function to do teh same,
or a recursive template that splits on . and discards the last section.

(assuming you don't have any elements in the extract element that you
need to preserve)

David

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