YES! That worked! Thank you very much Joerg
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joerg Heinicke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 1:31 PM Subject: Re: XPath problems in Cocoon? Does this help? select="a[following-sibling::node()[normalize-space() or self::*][1][self::a]]" First all non-whitespace-character text nodes and all elements are selected. From these one the first one is tested to be an <a/>. Regards, Joerg Anna Afonchenko wrote: > Thanks for answering > I agree that my expression is not the cleanest, but it doesn't work in > cocoon anyway :-( > I can't understand, why it is so hard to express some not-so-difficult > conditions. > I am trying to select all a nodes that are followed by another a node > without anything in between, except white spaces. I understand that my > problem is white spaces that are not ignored in any parser except for MSXML. > Example: > for <a /> <a/> or <a/><a/> I want my expression to pick the first a. > for <a/>text<a/> or <a/><br/><a/> I do not want my expression to pick the a. > > I don't want to ignore any text nodes, just the whitespace-only ones. > Expression //a[following-sibling::*[1][self::a]] will select also a nodes > woth some simple text in between, and I do not want it. > I don't believe that this should be that complicated, but the fact is that I > cannot manage to construct the expression that will choose exactly what I > need, no more, no less. > > Sorry to drag this thread for so long, but maybe you can help me a little > bit more with this and help me to find the right expression that will work > in Cocoon? > > Thank you very very much for help. > I appreciate it very much. > > Anna > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J.Pietschmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 9:21 PM > Subject: Re: XPath problems in Cocoon? > > > Anna Afonchenko wrote: > >>But when I tried to apply this stylesheet using cocoon, I still got the >>empty root element <root/ as a result. > > > That's because strip-space doesn't apply if the input is delivered > through a SAX pipeline (although the spec is a bit ambiguous about > this. > > Actually, your expression is ugly. What's wrong with > select="a[following-sibling::*[1][self::a]]" > This means "select a elements where the following element > (disregarding any text node) is also an a element." > This is not quite equivalent to your expression but will give > the same result for your XML source, and it will work regardless > whether whitespace nodes are stripped. > There's half a zillion other possibilities to express the same > or similar conditions. If you give a description of the effect > you want to achieve, a proper expression can be formulated. > > J.Pietschmann > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
