Hi

Thank you for all your response. I am sorry that I haven't been able
to express my problem clearly. I will try it again.
What I need is this:
My input:
<books>
<book>
<title>First title</title>
</book>
<notes>The following books talk about history.</notes>
<notes>For further information please log on to </notes>
<notes>Thank you for choosing.. </notes>
<book>
<title>Abraham Lincoln </title>
</book>

<authors>
sample data

</authors>
<notes>Please call... </notes>
<notes>Copyright Information </notes>
<book>

sample data
</book>
</books>

When I am in the template called book, I want to display all notes
after the first book up to the second book element.

So in my XSLT when I say:

<xsl:template match="books">
		<xsl:apply-templates select="book"/>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="book">
		<elem1>
			<title>
				<xsl:apply-templates select="title[1]"/>
			</title>
			<notes>
				<xsl:apply-templates
select="following::notes[following-sibling::*[1][self::book]]"/>
			</notes>
		</elem1>
	</xsl:template>

It selects only the last <notes> element and it selects both the notes
elements right after <book> and after <author>.
Output:
<elem1>
	<title>First title</title>
	<notes>Thank you for choosing.. Copyright Information </notes>
</elem1>
<elem1>
	<title>Abraham Lincoln </title>
	<notes>Copyright Information </notes>
</elem1>
<elem1>
	<title/>
	<notes/>
</elem1>

My desired output is:

<elem1>
	<title>First title</title>
	<notes>The following books talk about history.For further information
please log on to. Thank you for choosing..  </notes>
</elem1>
<elem1>
	<title>Abraham Lincoln </title>
	<notes>Please call... Copyright Information </notes>
</elem1>
<elem1>
	<title/>
	<notes/>
</elem1>

Please let me know if I am more clear now.



On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At 06:02 PM 11/30/2009, Mike wrote:
>>
>> Given XSLT 2.0, you can select two elements $a and $b, and then the number
>> of elements between these two is
>>
>> count($b/preceding-sibling::*) - count($b/preceding-sibling::*) - 1
>>
>> This is probably more efficient than
>>
>> count(*[. >> $a and $b >> .])
>>
>> but you can use that if it's more convenient.
>
> This answers the question as posed.
>
> A better solution, however, might be available if you specified your count
> differently.
>
> For example, you might be better off asking "how do I count notes elements
> that do not have book or author element ancestors", or "how do I count
notes
> elements that are directly inside books, but not deeper". (From your
problem
> statement it's impossible to know whether one of these might not be the
> case.)
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: a kusa [mailto:akusa8@xxxxxxxxx]
>> > Sent: 30 November 2009 22:40
>> > To: xsl-list
>> > Subject:  counting nodes before a certain node
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > How do I count nodes up to a certain point in XSLT?
>> >
>> > Example:
>> >
>> > My xml file looks like this:
>> >
>> > <books>
>> > <book>
>> > <title>First title</book>
>> > </book>
>> > <notes>The following books talk about history.</notes>
>> > <notes>For further information please log on to </notes>
>> > <notes>Thank you for choosing.. </notes> <book>
>> > <title>Abraham Lincoln </title> </book>
>> >
>> > <authors>
>> > sample data
>> >
>> > </authors>
>> > <notes>Please call... </notes>
>> > <notes>Copyright Information </notes>
>> > <book>
>> >
>> > sample data
>> > </book>
>> > </books>
>> >
>> > In my XSLT file, I want to count all <notes> just before the
>> > second <book> element but immediately after the first book
>> > element or just after <authors>.
>> >
>> > How do I count all the notes elements here?
>
>
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