Re: [xsl] equivalent for 'while'

["Richard Lewis" <richardlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:24:16 +0000, "RQamar" <qamar_rahil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> 
> >>>>Is there an equivalent of 'while' loop in XSLT 2.0?
> >>>>    
> >>>>
> >>    
> >>
> >>
> >>it depends what you mean by equivalence.
> >>  
> >>
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> Well I have an XML document which has several <DEFCONCEPT> elements. 
> Each of these elements contain certain <CHILD> sub-elements of the form 
> below:
> 
> <DEFCONCEPT id="123" name="abc">
>     <CHILD ref="567">abcChild</CHILD>
> </DEFCONCEPT>
> 
> <DEFCONCEPT id="567" name="abcChild">
>     <CHILD ref="890">abcGrandChild</CHILD>
> </DEFCONCEPT>
> 
> <DEFCONCEPT id="890" name="abcGrandChild"/>
> 
> How could I then place conditions when processing this XML doc such that 
> it continues searching for a <CHILD> element until it finds  
> 'abcGrandChild' ?
> 
> I thought perhaps a single statement could loop until the condition 
> becomes 'true' which is obviously not in lines with declarative
> programming. How else is it then possible?
> 
Does
<xsl:template match="child[text()='abcGrandChild']">
work?
Richard