Re: [xsl] Copy all preceding-sibling except...

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Becky,

At 04:24 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote:
> I now have a situation where I take
>
> <RootEle>
>         <Alphabet>
>                 <A/>
>                 <B/>
>                 <D/>
>                 <Special/>
>                 <Break/>
>                 <H/>
>         </Alphabet>
> </RootEle>
>
> What I want to come out with is:
> <RootEle>
>         <Alphabet>
>                 <A/>
>                 <B/>
>                 <D/>
>                 <Break/>
>         </Alphabet>
> </RootEle>
>
> I've been playing with the solution to my previous problem to see if I
> can work with it to solve this one, but I am unable figure out how to
> copy all the preceding-siblings and exclude any nodes that match
> "Special" at the same time.

To leave "Special" elements out, assuming the context node is your Break, use

preceding-sibling::*[not(self::Special)]

in XSLT 1.0.

Cheers,
Wendell


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