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Michael Terry wrote:
I should look more carefully: the link that my mailprog (thunderbird) makes of it does not include the trailing dot (as normally a link wouldn't end on any and the dot it part of the sentence). Anyway, I see now that the other page *is* different and does contain <h2> tags. And now both queries select something (and different things). Sorry for my first mistaken interpretation of your queries... In XSLT 2.0, your expression could be shortened to something like this: div/h2[1]/following-sibling::*[. << ../h2[1]/following-sibling::p[1]] or the inverse, meaning the same: $input/div/h2[1]/following-sibling::p[1]/preceding-sibling::*[. >> ../h2[1]] the operator >> or << (here <<) means "after" and "before" respectively. If you are stuck with XSLT 1.0 (I hope not, 2.0 is so much more fun) but, here you go: div/h2[1]/following-sibling::ul [generate-id(following-sibling::p[1]) = generate-id(../h2[1]/following-sibling::p[1])] This is more readable and understandable if written also for XSLT 2.0: div/h2[1]/following-sibling::ul [following-sibling::p[1] is ../h2[1]/following-sibling::p[1]] What we actually do here is selecting the stop-point (the P element) from two perspectives: from the parent (naive implementation would do ../p[1], but there are more P around, so we need to check it relative, following, to our h2[1], hence: ../h2[1]/following-sibling[1]) and holding every next P element (following-sibling::p[1]) against it for identity comparison. Identity comparison is done in XSLT 2.0 with the 'is' operator. In XSLT 1.0 you have to pull a 'trick' with the generate-id() function which is guaranteed to output a different identifier string for each node in the input tree. Hope this makes it more clear to you. Cheers, -- Abel Braaksma PS: when you use functions like generate-id(), you cannot use it inside the XPath Checker, you can only do it inside an XSLT file. The XPath checker gives an error, probably because it is an XSLT function and not an XPath function. And of course, XPath checker cannot deal with XSLT 2.0, use the open source Saxon, Gestalt or the free for personal use AltovaXML for that.
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