RE: FOR-EACH based on criteria and number output

you need to locate all ITEM nodes
-- //ITEM

then check the very preceding TITLE node 
-- [preceding::TITLE[1] != $title1

finally, use position() to give you the numbers


Good luck.




<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">

<xsl:variable name="title1" select="'Raging River'"/>


<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:for-each select="//ITEM[preceding::TITLE[1] != $title1]">
		<xsl:value-of select="concat(position(), '. ', .)"/><br/>
	</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>




</xsl:stylesheet>
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Hello,
   I'm attempting to produce an HTML document from an XML one using XSLT.  I
need to make a numbered list of a certain tag's(<ITEM>) info contained
within
the XML document.  This challenge here is that I only want certain <ITEM>s
to
be contained in my list while others should be omitted, however all <ITEM>s
have the same ancestry.  The only distinguishing element is a sibling tag
known
as <TITLE> with different literal values stored in them.  It is the value
stored in this <TITLE> that needs to determine the <ITEM>'s inclusion to or
exclusion from the list:

<GROUP>
  <PARA0>
    <TITLE>Magic Mountains</TITLE>
    <STEP1>
      <ITEM>This is the first item.</ITEM>
    </STEP1>
    <STEP1>
      <ITEM>This is the second item.</ITEM>
    </STEP1>
  </PARA0>
  <PARA0>
    <TITLE>Raging River</TITLE>
    <STEP1>
      <ITEM>I don't want this item.</ITEM>
    </STEP1>
    <STEP1>
      <ITEM>I don't want this item either.</ITEM>
    </STEP>
  </PARA0>
  <PARA0>
    <TITLE>Spectacular Sky</TITLE>
    <STEP1>
      <ITEM>This is the third item.</ITEM>
    </STEP1>
    <STEP1>
      <ITEM>This is the fourth item.</ITEM>
    </STEP1>
  </PARA0>
</GROUP>

---------------The HTML output should be as follows:
             1.  This is the first item.
             2.  This is the second item.
             3.  This is the third item.
             4.  This is the fouth item.

Any ideas?







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