How to select these nodes?

hustsay23 · September 7th, 2006, 04:05 AM

here is html code:

<html>
<body>
<h1>Chapter 1</h1>
<p>Then with expanded wings he steers his flight</p>
<p>Aloft, incumbent on the dusky Air</p>
<p>the cloud is white</p>
<h1>Chapter 1, Section 1</h1>
<p>That felt unusual weight, till on dry Land</p>
<p>He lights, if it were Land that ever burned</p>
</body>
</html>

I want to get the nodes <p> between the first <h1>element and the second <h1> (dont know
how many <p> nodes there are)

the result is:
<p>Then with expanded wings he steers his flight</p>
<p>Aloft, incumbent on the dusky Air</p>
<p>the cloud is white</p>

what i thought is:
use "following-sibling" and check each node's elementname whether the name is <h1>
if true then stop apply-template
but i don't konw how to write it?

any ideas? thanks!

mhkay · September 7th, 2006, 04:15 AM

Searching for "XSLT positional grouping" will give you some clues. In XSLT 2.0,

<xsl:for-each-group select="*" group-starting-with="h1">

In 1.0 a common approach is

<xsl:variable name="second-h1" select="generate-id(h1[2])">
<xsl:for-each select="p[generate-id(following-sibling::h1[1]) = $second-h1]">

or in this case its simpler.

<xsl:for-each select="h1[2]/preceding-sibling::p">

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference