Re: [xsl] following vs following-sibling

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yan and Marty,

There's absolutely a difference between the following-sibling and following 
axes (as any reference book will tell you :-).

If they're not working as expected, why not post the relevant bit of your 
source document? with the offending bit of stylesheet so we can explain 
what it's really doing and why you should expect that. And don't forget to 
tell us what processor you're using so we know where to point our 
bug-detectors!

By drawing attention to the actual working of the language, you are also 
likely to elicit interesting and potentially useful comments, such as why 
following-sibling is preferable to following in cases when you could use 
either....

Newbies who like to lurk are often helped immensely by the folks bold 
enough to ask the question.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 10:10 AM 12/28/01, you wrote:
> .. Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 08:52:24 -0600
> .. From: Yan Zhu <yan.zhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> .. Subject: [xsl] following vs following-sibling
> ..
> ..     Is there a difference between the two? I thought
> .. they are the same but:
> ..
> ..     I tried:
> ..
> ..     <xsl:value-of select="following::url"/>
> ..
> ..     which worked, but this:
> ..
> ..     <xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::url"/>
> ..
> ..     returns nothing while there is a following node, so
> .. they do behave differently?
> ..
>
> following-sibling is a subset of following.  following-sibling gets
> you only the children of the same parent as the current node; following
> gets all those plus their descendents.
>
> --jeff


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