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RE: [xsl] following nodes until "stop-node" reached (content between two nodes)

2008-04-08 06:07:13

Assuming you know there is only one "start" node and one "stop" node:

In XSLT 2.0

<xsl:variable name="start" select="*[(_at_)value='start']"/>
<xsl:variable name="stop" select="*[(_at_)value='stop']"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$start/following-sibling::*[. << $stop] | $stop">
  ...
</xsl:for-each>

In 1.0

<xsl:variable name="start" select="*[(_at_)value='start']"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$start/following-sibling::*[(_at_)value='stop' or
following-sibling::*/@value='stop']>
  ...
</xsl:for-each>

There are lots of other solutions. The most elegant use recursion, but
beginners tend to find that difficult.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: jakob Beetz [mailto:mailinglists(_dot_)jakob(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com] 
Sent: 08 April 2008 13:41
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] following nodes until "stop-node" reached 
(content between two nodes)

Dear XSLers,

given s.th. like

[...]
<somenode value="start">Heading</somenode>

<a/>
<b>text goes here </b>
<b>unpredictable</b>
<a>dasdf</a>

<somenode value="stop">something else</somenode> [...]


how would I select anything (but not including) that is 
between "somenode" with the attribute "start" and "stop"?

This is my beginers approach:
<xsl:template match="//somenode[(_at_)value='start']">
    <xsl:element name="entity">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:element>
    <xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::*">
        <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
     </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

how do check wether the current node in the for-eachnode is 
the "somenode"-node with  "stop" as attribute value? Can I 
"break out" of for each or somehow if-then the inclusion of 
anything that comes _after_ that?

As you probably see I do not have a really good undstanding 
of XSL/XPATH. Browsing the docs and XSL FAQ did not make me 
wiser either.

Any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance and
Cheers
Jakob

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