RE: [xsl] Check if next tag is ...

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can test if the next sibling element is a T element using

test="following-sibling::*[1][self::T]"

However, I wouldn't solve this problem in that way. I would have logic
something like

<xsl:template match="C">
  <tr>
    <td><xsl:value-of select="P"/></td>
    <td><xsl:value-of select="(T, '*')[1]"/></td>
    <td><xsl:value-of select="S"/></td>
  </tr>
</xsl:template>

In 1.0 you would have to expand this out using xsl:choose.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anne Kootstra [mailto:anne@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 15 December 2006 07:38
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Check if next tag is ...
> 
> The XML file I work with contains records that most of the 
> time have three unique nodes. However, it is part of the 
> design that one of these nodes, T in the example, is 
> optional. Here is an example of a file.
> 
> <A>
>  <C>
>    <P>AAA</P>
>    <T>BBB</T>
>    <S>CCC</S>
>  </C>
>  <C>
>    <P>DDD</P>
>    <T>EEE</T>
>    <S>FFF</S>
>  </C>
>  <C>
>    <P>GGG</P>
>    <S>HHH</S>
>  </C>
> </A>
> 
> The end result I'm aiming for is a rather simpel HTML table:
> 
>             P            T            S
> C        AAA       BBB       CCC
> C        DDD       EEE       FFF
> C        GGG         *          HHH
> C          ....          ...            ....
> 
> The problem I'm having is that I'm trying to test when 
> processing the P node if the next node is T. If the next node 
> isn't T or if the T node doesn't exist then use the value * 
> instead. Now I've experiemented with following-sibling, 
> node() and value but haven't been successful.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial or 
> help me out.
> My current list of references during development are:
> [1] - http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/Output/index.html,
> [2] - http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html=20
> But these haven't been able to help me do what I want to do.
> 
> Any help is welcomed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anne.