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Hi Mario, > I use an xsl:for-each that selects <comma> Elements within a certain > context. In this xsl:for-each I want to copy all elements that come > between this <comma> Element and the next <comma> Element and so > on. It's unfortunately a little complicated in XSLT. One method is to identify the following comma: <xsl:variable name="next-comma" select="following-sibling::comma[1]" /> And then identify all the following siblings of this comma that have the $next-comma as a following sibling. You can work out whether an element has $next-comma as a following sibling with: generate-id(following-sibling::comma[1]) = generate-id($next-comma) So you can copy all the elements between this comma and the next with: <xsl:copy-of select="following-sibling::* [generate-id(following-sibling::comma[1]) = generate-id($next-comma)]" /> You can also achieve this grouping effect by stepping through the following elements one by one with a recursive template. And as with any grouping, you can use the Muenchian Method here - index all the elements (aside from the comma elements) by their nearest preceding comma element and use that. If you'd like me to explain either of these techniques, let me know. For interest, in XSLT 2.0, a solution would be: <xsl:for-each-group group-starting-with="comma"> ... <xsl:copy-of select="current-group()[not(self::comma)]" /> ... </xsl:for-each> You could also use the $next-comma as above and then: <xsl:copy-of select="following-sibling::*[$next-comma >> .]" /> Or even, if you really felt like it: <xsl:copy-of select="following-sibling::* [following-sibling::comma[1] == $next-comma]" /> Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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