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Lucas,
The problem you are looking at is actually a variant of a grouping problem. Processing all the nodes up to a particular node amounts to grouping the nodes into several "before" and "after" groups. Grouping in general, and this sort of grouping in particular (called "positional grouping") are a well-known weak spot in XSLT 1.0. Accordingly, if you can use XSLT 2.0, you will have much better and much easier solutions available. If you must use XSLT 1.0, however, there are known methods. The two best methods are probably sibling recursion and key-based association. In sibling recursion, basically what you do is shift your processor (using template modes for this) out of its normal pattern of selecting and processing (applying templates) all children, and instead process only the first child, which processes the next, which processes the next, etc. This gives you a way to introduce stop and restart conditions into the processing. In key-based association, you basically associate the nodes, typically using a key (this makes it easier), with the node you want to stop on, and then use the key to retrieve them. This is essentially an optimization of the method that Sam has suggested (his logic does the same thing without the key). I think this method may be slightly easier for you. It would look something like: (Sam's code, for comparison) <xsl:template match="a"> <xsl:variable name="next_a" select="generate-id(following-sibling::a[1])"/>
<xsl:template match="a"> <!-- when 'a' is matched, nothing is done with it, but the elements associated by the key with its generated ID are processed --> <xsl:apply-templates select="key('nodes-by-last-stop',generate-id())"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="some_element"> <!-- when an element requiring splitting is matched, its own associated elements are processed (these are children that have no 'a' preceding them), then its 'a' children are processed --> <xsl:apply-templates select="key('nodes-by-last-stop',generate-id()"/> <xsl:apply-templates select="a"/> </xsl:template> If you research how keys work, you will find this does exactly the same thing as Sam's logic, only more concisely and more comprehensively (since it doesn't drop elements before the first 'a'). This can be extended to include 'lb' elements among the "stop" elements as follows: <xsl:key name="nodes-by-last-stop" match="node()" use="generate-id(parent::*|preceding-sibling::a|preceding-sibling::lb)[last()])"/> <xsl:template match="a | lb"> <xsl:apply-templates select="key('nodes-by-last-stop',generate-id())"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="some_element"> <xsl:apply-templates select="key('nodes-by-last-stop',generate-id()"/> <xsl:apply-templates select="a | lb"/> </xsl:template> Note: this code is untested, although the algorithm isn't. Good luck (and find a way to use XSLT 2.0!), Wendell At 07:35 AM 9/18/2008, you wrote: Thank you Sam! ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
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