Re: defining nodes to apply template to

i hope patience is not wearing thin as I appreciate
the help, the answers given almost give the required
result...thank you.

I used contains function in the apply templates how
could this be applied to your answers...?

If I also wanted the data contained on the line with
START how can I move the position back one... I guess
it is something to do with the position function but
again my immaturity in xslt does not aid me.

the reason why on the spacing is due to defining the
start and stop points I cannot guarantee the amount of
spacing within the text so normalizing the spacing
within the doc helps this

thanks


--- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   i want to combine the following...
> 
>   <xsl:apply-templates
>  
>
select="(data[contains(.'STOP')]/preceding-sibling::)"/>
>   
>   <xsl:apply-templates
>  
>
select="(data[contains(.'START')]/following-sibling::)"/>
> 
> 
> you coul do that (once you added data at the end of
> each, to make them
> legal xpath, but in that case it's easier to go back
> to plan a, apply
> templates to all data nodes and then use templates
> to zap the ones you
> don't want
> 
>   <xsl:apply-templates  select="data"/>
> 
> <xsl:template
> match="data[(.|following-sibling::data)='START']"/>
> <xsl:template
> match="data[(.|preceding-sibling::data)='STOP']"/>
> <xsl:template match="data">
> do something
> </xsl:template>
> 
> > in addition i also wish to normalize-space within
> the
> > document before applying the templates... 
> 
> Why before? why not during?
> 
> depending on quite what kind of normalisation you
> have in mind, it may
> be better to do in a first pass, either as a
> separate process, or using
> a xx:node-set() extension.
> 
> David
> 
>
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