Here is a short and efficient XSLT 1.0 solution using keys:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:key name="kPrecedingFoo" match="foo"
use="generate-id(following-sibling::*[not(self::foo)])"/>
<xsl:template match="/*/*[1]">
<xsl:copy-of select="key('kPrecedingFoo',
generate-id(../*[not(self::foo)][1]))"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Applying this transformation on variations of the following XML document
(try uncommenting different subsets of the commented elements) produces
always the wanted result:
<t>
<!-- <bar/> -->
<foo ind="1"/>
<foo ind="2"/>
<!-- <bar/> -->
<foo ind="3"/>
</t>
Cheers,
Dimitre
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 5:32 PM Wolfhart Totschnig
wolfhart(_dot_)totschnig(_at_)mail(_dot_)udp(_dot_)cl
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Dear list,
I am facing an XPath problem for which I cannot find the solution. I
want to select all following sibling elements of name "foo" up to the
first non-"foo" element. So, in the following case, the first two <foo>
elements should be selected:
<foo/>
<foo/>
<bar/>
<foo/>
In the following case, all three <foo> elements should be selected:
<foo/>
<foo/>
<foo/>
And in the following case, nothing should be selected:
<bar/>
<foo/>
<foo/>
I came up with the following non-working approach:
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when
test="not(following-sibling::*[not(self::foo)])">
<xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::*"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of
select="following-sibling::*[not(self::source)][1]/preceding-sibling::*[self::source][preceding-sibling::current()]"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
That is, test whether there are non-"foo" following siblings. If there
are none, take all following siblings. If there are, go forward to the
first non-"foo" sibling, and from there go backwards, taking all the
"foo" siblings up to the current node.
But this does not work. Apparently, the expression
"preceding-sibling::current()" is not a valid construct. So what is the
correct way to do what I have in mind (or a simpler solution, if there
is one). Please note that this stylesheet needs to be executed by a web
browser, and so the solution has to remain within XPath 1.0.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Wolfhart
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