RE: Testing for a following sibling node type that oc

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Subject: RE: Testing for a following sibling node type that occurs a t a varied position
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:31:06 -0400

At 03:20 AM 6/30/2004, someone wrote:

I changed your test a little, so I detect all the last 'B' by testing if the
name of the actual node differs from the name of the following node.
I hope this will help you

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<xsl:template match="root">
 <xsl:for-each select="B">
  <xsl:if test="not(name() = name(following-sibling::*))">
   <xsl:value-of select="." />
  </xsl:if>
 </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
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Given that it is known, in this test, that the context node is a 'B', this could be

 <xsl:for-each select="B">
  <xsl:if test="not(following-sibling::B)">
   <xsl:value-of select="." />
  </xsl:if>
 </xsl:for-each>

... but I don't think it answers the OP's requirement.

As I recall, Mike suggested child::A/preceding-sibling::B[1], which isn't considered adequate because the context node is already a B, not the parent of the As and Bs. So the requirement is not to *select* all B nodes that have no Bs after them before As, but to test true on a B context node that is (as the OP said) "the last 'B' node that occurs before the next 'A' node".

In other words, the context node is a B, and the test should detect that the directly following sibling is not a B, but that there is an A following sibling.

This is

test="following-sibling::*[1][not(self::B)] and following-sibling::A"

Cheers,
Wendell


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RE: Testing for a following sibling node type that occurs a t a varied position Wright, Steve - Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:52:26 -0400 Tobias Nies - Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:20:51 +0200 (MEST) Wendell Piez - Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:31:06 -0400 <=

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