Finding all elments in between two tags

rajatake · December 27th, 2006, 05:52 AM

Hi,

Is it possible to find the entire elements in between the two xml elements?

input file

<match1>name</match1>
  <date></date>
  <place></place>
  <country></country>
  <teams>
    <team1/>
    <team2/>
</teams>
<match2>name</match2>

I have to select all the elements in between match1 and match2 for my xslt. Can we write xpath for this scenario. i tried. but i couldn't able to deliver.

Regards,
Raja

mhkay · December 27th, 2006, 04:35 PM

In XPath 2.0,

match1/following-sibling::* intersect match2/preceding-sibling::*

There's no intersect operator in XPath 1.0, but you can express

$a intersect $b

as

$a[count(.|$b) = count($b)]

However in XSLT 1.0 this kind of problem is often best tackled with a recursive template that processes the elements from match1 one by one until match2 is reached. For examples, google for "XSLT positional grouping" or "XSLT sibling recursion".

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