Re: [xsl] Finding Only Initial Following Siblings That Meet Some Criteria

["Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like the use of xsl:iterate here--it seems to be a clean match for the
behavior.

Cheers,

E.

--
Eliot Kimber
http://contrext.com


o;?On 2/5/20, 5:14 PM, "Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    I think the ability to select items from a sequence until some condition
is true is something that's always been far too difficult.
    In my paper for XML Prague next week I propose:

    fn:items-before(
      ($this,$this/following-sibling::node()),
      function($n){$n/@outputclass != $this/@outputclass})

    as a function that selects everything in a sequence up to, and excluding,
the first item where some condition is true.

    You could consider implementing this function using xsl:iterate:

    <xsl:function name="f:items-before" as="item()*">
      <xsl:param name="in" as="item()*"/>
      <xsl:param name="predicate" as="function(item()) as xs:boolean"/>
      <xsl:iterate select="$in">
        <xsl:choose>
          <xsl:when test="$predicate(.)">
             <xsl:break/>
           </xsl:when>
          <xsl:otherwise>
             <xsl:sequence select="."/>
          </xsl:otherwise>
       </xsl:choose>
     </xsl:iterate>
    </xsl:function>

    And I've always thought a following-sibling-or-self axis would be handy,
though the name is horrendous.

    Michael Kay
    Saxonica




    On 5 Feb 2020, at 22:29, Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    In my XML I can have adjacent elements that should be processed as a unit,
where the adjacent elements all have the same value for a given attribute.
Other elements with the same attribute could be following siblings but
separated by other elements or text nodes, i.e.:

    <p>Text <ph outputclass="x">1</ph><ph outputclass="x">2</ph> more text <ph
outputclass="x">New sequence</ph></p>

    Where the rendered result should combine the first two <ph> elements but
not the third, i.e.:

    <p>Text <x>12</x> more text <x>New sequence</x></p>

    Processing is applied to the first element in the document with the
@outputclass value "x" and then I want to grab any immediately following
siblings with the same @outputclass value and no intervening text or element
nodes.

    My solution is to use for-each-group like so:

        <xsl:variable name="this" as="element()" select="."/>
        <xsl:variable name="adjacent-sibs" as="element()+">
          <xsl:for-each-group select="($this,
$this/following-sibling::node())"
            group-adjacent="string(@outputclass)">
            <xsl:if test=". is $this">
              <xsl:sequence select="current-group()"/>
            </xsl:if>
          </xsl:for-each-group>
        </xsl:variable>

    Which works, but I'm thinking there must be a more compact way to do the
same selection, but the formulation is escaping me.

    Is there a more compact or more efficient way to make this selection of
only immediately-adjacent following siblings?

    Thanks,

    E.
    --
    Eliot Kimber
    http://contrext.com









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