I have not actually tried to debug your stylesheet, but wrote one that I think
will do what you want.


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I have this XML:



<root>

    <x>not a child of p</x>

    <p>1</p>

    <p>2</p>

    <p>3</p>

    <x>child of p</x>

    <p>4</p>

</root>



If an <x> element immediately follows a <p>, I want to make it a child of the
<p>:



<root>
   <x>not a child of p</x>
   <p>1</p>
   <p>2</p>
   <p>
      <x>child of p</x>3</p>
    <p>4</p>
</root>


I thought I could do this with a mode but I am still getting the text of the
<x> after the <p> that contains the child <x>:



<root>
   <x>not a child of p</x>
   <p>1</p>
   <p>2</p>
   <p>
      <x>child of p</x>3</p>
    child of p
    <p>4</p>
</root>


Here is my stylesheet:



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/math"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs math"
    version="3.0" expand-text="yes">

    <xsl:output indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="/root">
        <xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="p">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="following-sibling::*[1][self::x]">
                    <xsl:apply-templates
select="following-sibling::*[1][self::x]" mode="child-x"/>
                </xsl:when>
            </xsl:choose>
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="x" mode="child-x">
        <xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="x[not(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::p])]">
        <xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>



Any help will be appreciated. Thank you very much.

[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/xslt]