next sibling

anthonym · November 14th, 2011, 01:15 PM

I have a similar xml document as below

<name>anthony</name>
<family>smith</family>
<name>steven</name>
<family>jones</family>
<name>peter</name>
<family>sales</family>
<name>laura</name>
<family>simpson</family>
<name>derek</name>
<family>trotter</family>

Trying to access each <name> <family> pair seperately to run a transfrom on each one.

However, each time my transform is accessing a <name> elelement and I call a following-sibling::family
it accesses all the following <family> siblings> when i just want the next one..
can anyone suggest how to do this.
thanks

Martin Honnen · November 14th, 2011, 01:19 PM

Use a positional predicate: following-sibling::family[1]

mhkay · November 14th, 2011, 01:56 PM

That should of course be following-sibling::family[1].

Alternatively, redesign the XML. Add a wrapper element around each (name, family) pair to better reflect the true structure.