Re: [xsl] simple XPath expression

[Oleg Tkachenko <olegt at multiconn dot com>]

Just an assumption :

<xsl:template match="xhtml:body//text()[not(ancestor::xhtml:font)]">

(note xhtml namespace of font element)

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Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International, Israel

Alex Hunsley wrote:
> Hi
> I'm still a bit new to XSLT and I'm trying to write a certain xpath expression
> without any success.
> 
> I'm processing an xhtml file (basically, it's just html really) to add some
> styling (e.g. fonts etc).
> 
> Initially, I started off with a template for matching text in the html, and
> the line was as follows:
> 
>   <xsl:template match="xhtml:body//text()">
> 
> This rule worked fine, and matched on text nodes in the html.
> 
> An extra requirement then came up - I wanted to change this line so that it
> only matched on text nodes that didn't have a <font> element as an ancestor.
> The following line is my current attempt to do this:
> 
>   <xsl:template match="xhtml:body//text()[not(ancestor::font)]">
> 
> but it doesn't work. The XSLT processor does the processing without any
> errors, but it matches on lines that do have a font ancestor, so I haven't
> written the line right...
> 
> can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong?
> 
> thanks!
> alex
> 
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