Re: defining nodes to apply template to

i want to combine the following...

<xsl:apply-templates
select="(data[contains(.'STOP')]/preceding-sibling::)"/>

<xsl:apply-templates
select="(data[contains(.'START')]/following-sibling::)"/>

So limiting the data to just the data inbetween
these... i noticed intersect (which looked very
useful) in XPath 2.0 but unfortunately I can only use
XPath 1.0

in addition i also wish to normalize-space within the
document before applying the templates... I can see
two ways ...running a separate xslt script first or
altering the incomming xml data before the processing
with the xslt script but was wondering if there is a
way to do it all in the same xslt script?

thanks for you help...

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

> 
> You are applying templates to all nodes, so you need
> a template 
> <xsl:template match="blah"/>
> that says to do nothing with blah elements that
> don't match your other
> template.
> 
> Or simpler in this case just have a template
> matching blah that does teh
> trannsformation you require, and only apply
> templates to the blah nodes
> before stop, as I suggested earlier:
> 
> 
> Date: 4 Aug 2005 17:08:35 +0100
> From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In-reply-to:
>
<20050804154345.95728.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> (message
> 	from ADAM PATRICK on Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:43:45 +0100
> (BST))
> Subject: Re:  defining nodes to apply template
> to
> 
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates
> select="blah[.='STOP']/preceding-sibling::blah"/>
> 
> 
> David
> 
>
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