But when I tried to apply this stylesheet using cocoon, I still got the empty root element <root/ as a result.
That's because strip-space doesn't apply if the input is delivered through a SAX pipeline (although the spec is a bit ambiguous about this.
Actually, your expression is ugly. What's wrong with select="a[following-sibling::*[1][self::a]]" This means "select a elements where the following element (disregarding any text node) is also an a element." This is not quite equivalent to your expression but will give the same result for your XML source, and it will work regardless whether whitespace nodes are stripped. There's half a zillion other possibilities to express the same or similar conditions. If you give a description of the effect you want to achieve, a proper expression can be formulated.
J.Pietschmann
--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
