[oXygen-user] Xpath and Saxon return tabs as text

Fri Sep 5 04:48:17 CDT 2008

Hello Philipp,

Until we add the option for stripping whitespace-only nodes in the 
evaluation of expressions on the XPath toolbar you can use the following 
XPath 2.0 expression which does the stripping:

//text()[string-length(translate(., '&#x20;&#x9;&#xD;&#xA;', '')) > 0]

Regards,
Sorin

Sorin Ristache wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Saxon 9 has an option for stripping whitespace nodes but Oxygen allows 
> you to set it only for transformations (Preferences -> XML -> 
> XSLT-FO-XQuery -> XSLT -> Saxon -> Saxon-B/SA). If you set the above 
> option to strip whitespace nodes and you run an XSLT transform that uses 
> the expression //text() you can see that the list of nodes does not 
> contain such nodes. In the next version we will add this Saxon 9 option 
> for XPath expressions too.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sorin
> 
> 
> Philipp Steinkrüger wrote:
>> Dear Oxygen-Users,
>>
>> i am having a problem with an indented XML File. The File looks like 
>> this:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <TEI xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
>> xmlns="http://www.i-d-e.de/ns/1.0">
>>     <teiHeader>
>>         <fileDesc>
>>             <titleStmt>
>>                 <title>MS Einsiedeln</title>
>>             </titleStmt>
>>             <publicationStmt>
>>                 <p>publicationsStmt empty</p>
>>             </publicationStmt><sourceDesc>
>>                 <p>sourceDesc empty</p>
>>             </sourceDesc></fileDesc>
>>     </teiHeader>
>>     <text>
>>         <body>
>>             <div>
>>                 <div>
>>                     <div>
>>                         <p><c>D</c>ie gotheit iſt beſloſſen<lb/>in dem 
>> vater n<ex>atur</ex>elich
>>                                 dar<lb/>vmbe iſt er 
>> alvermvgende<lb/>vnd enpfat niht von ite<lb
>>                                 />des<gap reason=""/> er ſelber nit en 
>> iſt an<lb/>ſiner go<unclear
>>                                 >tl</unclear>icher macht wan<lb/>ers 
>> weſelich i<ex>n</ex> ime vnd
>>                                 an<lb/>ime ſelben beſloſſen hat<space 
>> unit="letters" quantity="1"
>>                         /></p>
>>    </div>
>>      </div>
>>        </div>
>>     </body>
>>   </text>
>> </TEI>
>>
>> Now, using the following XPath 2.0 expression: //text(), the tabs are 
>> returned as text-nodes, for example the first tab before the tag 
>> <teiHeader>. In fact, my DTD does not allow #PCDATA inside <TEI>, but 
>> the document is validated without any problems. To me this seems kind 
>> of schizophrenic, or am I mistaken? Btw: the same file in XMLSpy with 
>> its build-in xslt engine as well as MS XML parser with the same xPath 
>> expression does not return the tabs as text-nodes.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> Philipp
>>
>> PS: I am using Oxygen 9.3