Re: preceding-sibling including previous node

On 11/28/05, ADAM PATRICK <adampatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> xslt 1.0 xpath 1.0
>
> <xsl:template
> mact="animals[preceding-sibling::animals[contains(.'pig')]]">
>
> With the above how would you:
>
> Select all preceding-siblings where node text contains
> pig including the line that contains pig.
>
> Is there something you can do with position?

You've done it as a match pattern, rather than a select.  That
template will only match an <animals> element provided it has a
preceding-sibling <animals> element whose text value (all descendent
text nodes concatenated together) contains the string 'pig'.

If you want to select all preceding-sibling <animals> elements that
have the string 'pig' somewhere in their string values then you would
use:

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

You then need to only specify "animals" in the template match pattern:

<xsl:template match="animals">

It's difficult to guess your exact issue without seeing more of your
stylesheet - if this isn't what you meant then post a snippet of your
xml and xslt and what the problem is.

cheers
andrew