Just eyeballing this, Dmitry, I'm not convinced
it would work if Wolfhart was sitting at a <foo>
at the time he made his request, in which case
the <foo> he was at would incorrectly be included.
Granted the original requirement is
underspecified in this regard, so perhaps my
observation is irrelevant. I'm not trying to
nit-pick but I discounted the use of keys because
of the arbitrary starting point for evaluation.
Also the use= needs a "[1]" predicate to ensure
the correct cardinality for generate-id() in the
general case where there are multiple following siblings that are not <foo>.
I'm usually successful with keys when not having
to deal with the current context.
Wolfhart, am I being too pedantic here?
. . . . . . Ken
At 2021-02-19 01:29 +0000, Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
wrote:
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>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)])"/>
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 <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
<mailto:wolfhart(_dot_)totschnig(_at_)mail(_dot_)udp(_dot_)cl>wolfhart(_dot_)totschnig(_at_)mail(_dot_)udp(_dot_)cl
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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)])">
              Â
 <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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