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Subject: XPath problem: Checking if imidiately preceding sibling is of a certain kind
From: "Ragulf Pickaxe" <jawxml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:37:05 +0000
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Hi all,

What I want achieved is the following:

With the following XML:

<root>
 <X><A a="1"/><A a="1"/><A a="2"/>Some text</X>
 <X><A a="4"/>Some text<br/>
       <A a="5"/>More text<br/>
       <A a="7"/>Even more text</X>
</root>

I want to group the A nodes that are next to each other, but not those that are not next to each other, all the while keeping the structure of the original document.

In the XSL document, which has some template much like this

<xsl:template match="/">
 <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
</

I have tried the following:

<xsl:template match="A[1]">
<!-- This groups all the A elements in a given X element
This means that the second X gets the grouped too much -->
</

Or:

<xsl:template match="A">
<!-- This one does not group any of them -->
</


In the second implementation I have the tried a choose, when, otherwise to get the grouping.


What I want to achieve is (in pseudocode):

<xsl:choose>
 <xsl:when test="not('The preceding sibling is an A node')"/>
   <!-- Do something -->
 </
 <xsl:otherwise>
   <!-- At the moment do nothing -->
 </
</

I have tried to look at the name() function, but I don't think I understand it correctly
test="not(preceding-sibling::*[1]/name()='A'" goes totally wrong.


I think it must be really simple, but I can't get my mind to work, it seems.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

If anyone has a different approach, I will be grateful, but please bear in mind this is but an example.

Regards,
Ragulf Pickaxe :)

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