Re: [xsl] Break functionality in XSL

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Anil Kumar Veeramalli wrote:

> I am using XSL1.0 version. I am looking for Break functionally in 
> for-loop, I didn't find correct documentation on that.
>
> <xsl:for-each select="employees">
>   <xsl:for-each select="employee">
>   <xsl:if test="@NAME='STATUS'">
>       <xsl:variable name="status" select="."/>               
> <xsl:for-each 
> select="TABLE[@NAME='XLATTABLE_EMPL_STATUS']/ROWS/ROW/COLUMN[@NAME='STATUS']"> 
>
>                   <xsl:value-of variable="test" select=".'">
>                      <xsl:if test="$test='A'">
>                         </xsl:if>
> ///want to come back from loop once a condition is satisfied and don't 
> want to loop again.
>
>       </xsl:for-each>
>
>   </xsl:if>
>
>   </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Approaches I tried:
> 1) some were I read that we need to use <xsl:break>, but its not working.

There is no xsl:break and xsl:for-each is not a loop. You might simply 
want to put your condition into a predicate in the select attribute e.g.

<xsl:for-each
select="TABLE[@NAME='XLATTABLE_EMPL_STATUS']/ROWS/ROW/COLUMN[@NAME='STATUS'][. 
= 'A']">


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