Re: [xsl] Select everything up to and including the first <section>

["Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> My context node is the <chapter> element. I want to select everything up to
> and including the first <section>.

In case this will be needed more than once, then using XSLT 1.0 one can do this:

        key('kPreceding', generate-id(/*/section[1]))  |   /*/section[1]

where the key is defined like this:

       <xsl:key name="kPreceding" match="node()"
use="generate-id(following-sibling::section[1])"/>


Note, that a variation of this may be useful in selecting all nodes
that are between any two consecutive <section/> siblings:

     <xsl:key name="kBetween" match="node()"
            use="concat(generate-id(preceding-sibling::section[1]),
generate-id(following-sibling::section[1]))"/>


and select the nodes with something like this:

     key('kBetween', concat(generate-id(/*/section[1]),
generate-id(/*/section[2])))


Cheers,
Dimitre

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Rick Quatro rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Here is my xml:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <chapter>
>     <title>Title</title>
>     <intro>
>         <p>Intro</p>
>     </intro>
>     <section></section>
>     <section></section>
>     <section></section>
> </chapter>
>
> My context node is the <chapter> element. I want to select everything up to
> and including the first <section>. I am trying this
>
>
> //chapter/*[not(self::section[position()&gt;1])]
>
> but it selects all of the children of chapter. In the above example, I am
> trying to select all of the children except the last two sections. Thank you
> in advance.
>
> Rick
>
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
> rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 585-366-4017
>
>
>
> 



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