For each with following-sibling

bonekrusher · July 15th, 2009, 02:01 PM

Hi, how do I process nodes of a following sibling with a for each instruction?

Suppose my input xml is:

Code:

<root>
    <item>Data</item>
    <item>Data</item>
    <item>Data</item>
    <note>Note</note>
    <note>Note</note>
    <item>Data</item>
    <item>Data</item>
    <note>Note</note>
</root>

my context node is <item>

Code:

<xsl:template match="item">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
            <xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::*[self::note][not(self::item)]">
                <!--do something-->
            </xsl:for-each>        
</xsl:template>

Thanks

Martin Honnen · July 15th, 2009, 02:08 PM

You need to explain what output you want to achieve or in what way your code does not do what you want.
Your XPath following-sibling::*[self::note][not(self::item)] can certainly be shortened to following-sibling::note but I am not sure that will help.

bonekrusher · July 15th, 2009, 02:18 PM

Thanks Martin. I need to rethink this one... I think I can solve my problem by changing how I process one of the ancestors.