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Hm (Mick),
At 11:54 AM 10/20/2003, I wrote:
And now I'm thinking that to work around the type-conversion rules you may have to do
substring(" _",1 + boolean(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::nospace]), 1)
since otherwise your node-set will be turned into a string before it's made a Boolean and then a number.... :->
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Re: [xsl] Immediately preceding-sibling
Subject: Re: [xsl] Immediately preceding-sibling From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:24:11 -0400 |
Hm (Mick),
At 11:54 AM 10/20/2003, I wrote:
If you want to be *really* fancy:
substring(" _",1 + preceding-sibling::*[1][self::nospace], 1)
will give you a " " or a "_" depending on what the immediate preceding sibling is (since a Boolean false or true becomes the number 0 or 1 when you try to add it).
And now I'm thinking that to work around the type-conversion rules you may have to do
substring(" _",1 + boolean(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::nospace]), 1)
since otherwise your node-set will be turned into a string before it's made a Boolean and then a number.... :->
Cheers, Wendell
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