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Subject: RE: Output conditional on preceding nodes.
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 14:25:08 -0500
RE:  Output conditional on preceding nodes.
Nick,

At 11:51 AM 12/7/01, you wrote:
I have been given help by this list in choosing the third paragraph
following a header with text 'foo'.  What I'm doing is something like

<xsl:template match="h1[. = 'foo']">
        <xsl:if test="./following::p[3]">
                <xsl:copy-of select="./following::p[3]"/>
        </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

Just


<xsl:template match="h1[. = 'foo']">
  <xsl:copy-of select="following::p[3]"/>
</xsl:template>

has the same effect, since the node won't be copied if it doesn't exist. :-)

BUT!  I need an exclude version of this.  i.e. If I want everything EXCEPT
the third paragraph, how do I do this?

select="following::p(not(position()=3))"


(Why do I feel like I'm using this technology in ways it wasn't meant to be
used?)

Dunno. It was meant to be used like this! (although one could quibble about an XML design in which the position of nodes among their siblings is this important ... first and last are often special, but third? :-)


Cheers,
Wendell


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