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Only now that I'm reading your replies am I understanding what "preceding::"
actually matches. Thanks!
Good clue with the "normalize-space()", Wendell, but still, somehow whitespace seems to be a problem: An original XML document (TEI): ... <item n="c">The <mentioned>i</mentioned> of the nom. before a vowel in the RV. <pb n="26"/> <list> <item n="a">The <mentioned>i</mentioned> of the ... ... after applying the following XSL 2.0 Transformation template (among others; the "body//" part of the match ensures that only text nodes from the <body> of the document are considered): <xsl:template match="body//text()[preceding::text()[normalize-space()][1] << preceding::pb[1]]"> <span class="pagenumber">page <xsl:value-of select="preceding::pb[1]/@n"/></span> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> becomes: ... <li>The <span class="ved">i</span> of the nom. before a vowel in the RV. <span class="pagenumber">page 26</span>
<ol style="list-style-type:lower-greek">
<span class="pagenumber">page 26</span>
<li>
<span class="pagenumber">page 26</span>
<span class="ved">i</span> of the ...
...You see, a lot of <span>s are added not just to the very first text node. These seem to be added just around those places where I have a <pb/> in the original, so I suppose it's got to do with whitespace (there's always one empty line before and after <pb/> in the source XML). I'm using Saxon B 9.1.0.3 for my XSL 2.0 transformation (in Oxygen). I'm looking into the thing some more today but thank you for your replies so far. David B|rgin
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