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Re: Selecting descendent text node


Mathew, at first sight you seem to have answered your own question and a possible
solution might be :
 <xsl:template match="list">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="text()" />
 </xsl:template>
 <xsl:template match="list/text()[1] | list/text()[last()]">
  <BR />First or Last: <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 </xsl:template>

This uses predicates in the template match pattern which are allowed according to
the XSLT spec.

However, looking more closely at your test, you presumably want the first (or
last) descendant at ANY level below the list element given the use of // in your
pattern. Going by Mike Kay's book, P417, para 3 there is no simple way of doing
this since the XSLT spec does not recognise (list//text())[1] as a valid pattern.

Hence Warren's suggestion, though I'm sure he meant to use // in his solution, ie.
<xsl:template match="list//text()"> as this will give your desired results. Adding
a second when element with position()=last() handles the situation where there is
only one text node.

Regards
Nick Browne
Slipstone Ltd

Matthew Bentley wrote:

> I want to select the last (or first) text node descendant of a particular
> element (lets say, list):
> To select the first text node:
> xpath=(list//text())[1]
> To select the last text node:
> xpath=(list//text())[last()]
>
> However, XSLT does not allow this kind of matching in a template match:
> Is there a way around this?
> M@


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