On 01/11/2007, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Then I recommend you change it to the following:
>
>    match="s[(ancestor::b[1]//text()[normalize-space()])[last()] >> .]"
>
> ... so that you catch text nodes that have non-white-space
> characters, or alternatively that you ensure all white-space-only
> text nodes are removed from the source tree by either an
> <xsl:strip-space> instruction or at invocation.
>
> I'm thinking that with the original proposal any indentation found in
> the source tree would allow the <s> to be matched.

you sure?

t:\ftemp>type sascha.xml
<a>
  aaa
  <b>
      bbb
      <c>
          ccc
          <s/>
      </c>
      BBB
  </b>
  AAA
  <b>
      bbb
      <c>
          ccc
          <s/>
      </c>
  </b>
   AAA
</a>

t:\ftemp>type sascha.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="2.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="//s"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="s">
  <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>: no
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="s[(ancestor::b[1]//text())[last()] >> .]">
    <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>: yes
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>call saxon8 sascha.xml sascha.xsl

t:\ftemp>type sascha2.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="2.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="//s"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="s">
  <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>: no
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>call saxon8 sascha.xml sascha2.xsl

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