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Re: selecting a range of nodes

From: Pavel Lepin <p.lepin@-------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 8/3/2007 12:58:00 PM



Andy Fish <ajfish@b...> wrote in
<joCsi.15392$7c.10352@f...>:
> <top>
>     <a1/>
>     <a2/>
>     <foo/>
>     <a3/>
>     <a4/>
>     <a5/>
>     <a6/>
>     <bar/>
>     <a7/>
>     <a8/>
> </top>
> 
> now, inside this template
> 
> <xsl:template match="foo">
> 
> I would like to select all the nodes up to the following
> <bar> (if there are several <bar>s it would be the next
> one)

The need to do that often indicates a problem with the
design of your XML document.

> it seems quite simple on the face of it but I can't figure
> out any way to get close at the moment

Read up on generate-id() and current():

  following-sibling::*
  [
    generate-id(following-sibling::bar)=
    generate-id(current()/following-sibling::bar)
  ]

Note that using keys may result in a significant performance
boost.

-- 
...the pleasure of obedience is pretty thin compared with
the pleasure of hearing a rotten tomato hit someone in the
rear end. -- Garrison Keillor

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