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Re: last() or preceding node if last() have empty text-node selection
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:21:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: [xsl] last() or preceding node if last() have empty text-node selection
- References: <41937298F962D411A87F004033E227AA2DA77F@nt06.hamburg.hanseorga.de>
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> I want to select the string from the last position, but if it is empty, then
> i want select, the preceding text-node
rephrase that to say
I want to select the last node with non empty string value.
then it's easy:
select="DARBEDINGUNG[not(.='')][last()]"
Note that if all your DARBEDINGUNG nodes are siblings then adding using
// as in
//DARBEDINGUNG
is slowing down the search fro no reason.
David
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