Hi,

> If I'm understanding you correctly, that you're interested in d's that
> are immediately followed by a c, simply add a predicate on the
> following-sibling axis:
> 
> d[following-sibling::*[1]=c]
> 
> This will select your first d, but not your second...

That will actually select all d elements whose first following sibling element has the same string value as one of the child c elements of d.

You want

  d[following-sibling::*[1][self::c]]

Santtu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Figon [mailto:philippe.figon@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 6:37 PM
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Testing the following element
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In a book I transform from xml to LaTeX using xslt, I have a 
> hierachical
> structure of this kind :
> 
> <Chapter>
>  <a><a1>hello</a1>
>   <b>
>    <c>blah blah</c>
>    <d>
>     <c>blah blah</c>
>    </d>
>    <c>blah blah</c>
>   <d>
>    <c>blah blah</c>
>   </d>
>   <e>
>    <c>blah blah</c>
>   </e>
>  </b>
> </a>
> </Chapter>
> 
> And I want to test if the <d>..</d> element is followed immediately
> (that's
> the point) by an <c>..</c> element. The case of a <c>..</c> element
> included
> in something else (an <e>..</e> here) mustn't validate the 
> test. To put
> it
> simple, with the example above, I want the first <d>...</d> element to
> match
> a certain template, while the second <d>...</d> must match another
> template.
> Using test="following-sibling::c" doesn't work for it's always valid
> when a
> <c>..</c> element is included in one of the following brother of
> <d>..</d>.
> I've tried to add some position test but I can't make it work 
> properly.
> 
> Can anyone help ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Philippe
> 
> philippe.figon@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Philippe
> 
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