Thanks David - this has got me so close!
I'm doing reading to understand how your stuff works(!) and how to adapt it to
my real-life needs, but thought I'd post a reply for any further input
To get a bit closer to my real-life situation, my source XML is more like
this...
<A i="1">
<STUFF/>
<MORE_STUFF/>
<WRAPPER>
<B i="2">
<C i="3"/>
</B>
<B i="4">
<C i="5">
<D i="6"/>
<D i="7">
<E i="8"/>
<E i="9" msg="get me out of here!"/>
<E i="10"/>
</D>
<D i="11"/>
</C>
<C i="12"/>
</B>
</WRAPPER>
</A>
And my output more like this
<A i="1">
<STUFF/>
<MORE_STUFF/>
<WRAPPER>
<BEFORE>
<B i="2">
<C i="3"/>
</B>
<B i="4">
<C i="5">
<D i="6"/>
<D i="7">
<E i="8"/>
</D>
</C>
</B>
</BEFORE>
<PULLED>
<E i="9" msg="get me out of here!"/>
</PULLED>
<AFTER>
<B i="4">
<C i="5">
<D i="7">
<E i="10"/>
</D>
<D i="11"/>
</C>
<C i="12"/>
</B>
</AFTER>
</WRAPPER>
</A>
So I'm trying to use an identity template to kick of the processing.
Then I have a template to match WRAPPER, which contains your stuff, only I'm
attempting to constraint it operate on the value of the variable $sub-tree,
defined as:
<xsl:variable name="sub-tree" select="/A/WRAPPER"/>
<xsl:template match="WRAPPER">
<WRAPPER>
<BEFORE>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$sub-tree" mode="before"/>
<BEFORE>
<PULLED>
<xsl:copy-of select="$this"/>
<PULLED>
<AFTER>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$sub-tree" mode="after"/>
</AFTER>
</WRAPPER>
</xsl:template>
But here my lack of understanding kicks in - this doesn't work (which doesn't
surprise me!) and here's where I need to bolster my knowledge...bit if you did
have a quick input in the meantime that would really be appreciated.
Thanks so much
-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk]
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 7:51 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] Selecting everything "before" and "after" a specific node
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:variable name="this" select="//E[(_at_)i='9']"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<ROOT>
<BEFORE>
<xsl:apply-templates mode="before"/>
</BEFORE>
<PULLED>
<xsl:copy-of select="$this"/>
</PULLED>
<AFTER>
<xsl:apply-templates mode="after"/>
</AFTER>
</ROOT>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*[. is $this]" mode="before after" priority="3"/>
<xsl:template match="*[. >> $this]" mode="before" priority="2"/>
<xsl:template match="*" mode="before after">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates mode="#current"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:variable name="before" select="$this/preceding::*"/>
<xsl:template match="*[$before[. is current()]]" mode="after" priority="2"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
$ saxon9 pull.xml pull.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ROOT>
<BEFORE>
<A i="1">
<B i="2">
<C i="3"/>
</B>
<B i="4">
<C i="5">
<D i="6"/>
<D i="7">
<E i="8"/>
</D>
</C>
</B>
</A>
</BEFORE>
<PULLED>
<E i="9" msg="get me out of here!"/>
</PULLED>
<AFTER>
<A i="1">
<B i="4">
<C i="5">
<D i="7">
<E i="10"/>
</D>
<D i="11"/>
</C>
<C i="12"/>
</B>
</A>
</AFTER>
</ROOT>
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