Re: text() selection problem.

[Pa...@lotus.com]

Anders,

Two problems here.  First off you need to change the following:

    <test headline="preceding-sibling::text()"/>
to
    <test headline="{preceding-sibling::text()}"/>

Without the {}'s around your expression you'll just get the text;
    "preceding-sibling::text()"

This is cuz you're creating a Literal Result Element which needs to
utilize Attribute Value Template to set attribute values. AVT are specified
with {}'s.

Once {}'s are added you should not have trouble using [1] to specify
which text node out of the nodeset you want.  The trick here is to
remember that the preceding-sibling nodeset is indexed in reverse
document order,  thus requiring [1].   Given your original xml source tree
the following stylesheet should produce what you're after.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version
="1.0">

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

<xsl:template match="e2">
   <test headline="{preceding-sibling::text()[1]}"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Paul


                                                                                                           
                    "Anders Janmyr"                                                                        
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                                            Subject:     text() selction problem.                          
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Hello,

I don't know if this is a bug so I'll just describe my problem.
I'm Using Windows NT and Xalan-J-2.0.0.


Im trying to convert a page that looks like this:

<page>
    Text for element 1.
    <e1>Element 1</e1>
    Text for element 2.
    <e2>Element 2</e2>
</page>

with this stylesheet rule:

<xsl:template match="e2">
    <test headline="preceding-sibling::text()"/>
</xsl:template>

The result is:
<test headline="&#10;    Text for element 1.&#10;    "/>

What I would expect is the the second text, something like this:
<test headline="Text for element 2."/>

I have also had problems when using text()[n] addressing in the
stylesheets.

Are there problem with the text() node?

Any help is appreciated.

Anders