On Sep 23, 12:58pm, Michael Teigman wrote:
You can try a different approach:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:apply-templates select="(Salesman/Orders[not(@Order='')])[1]"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Orders">
  <order-val>
  	<xsl:value-of select="@Order"/>
  </order-val>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

This yields:
<order-val>zzzzzzzzz</order-val>

The select clause chooses the first Orders element that has a non-null Order
attribute.

Dan

> Subject: RE: How Can You Exit an xsl:for-each Loop Prematurely?
>
> My source XML has an element with a set of attributes with the same name
e.g.,
>
> <Salesman>
>      <Orders Order=""/>
>      <Orders Order=""/>
>      <Orders Order="zzzzzzzzz"/>
>      <Orders Order="ee"/>
> </Salesman>
>
> To simplify, I am doing the equivalent of trying to find the first non-null
> Order, e.g.:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="//Salesman/Orders/@Order">
>      <xsl:variable name="orderID">
>                     <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>      </xsl:variable>
>      <xsl:if test="string-length($orderID) > 0">
>           ..... output something .....
>      </xsl:if>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> I want only the first output. I do not want multiple outputs.
>
> How could I exit after the first or suppress the additional outputs after I
have
> found one?
>
>      mike
>
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> > From: Michael Teigman [mailto:michael.teigman@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 1:31 AM
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> > Subject: How Can You Exit an xsl:for-each Loop Prematurely?
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> > Is there some way to exit an xsl:for-each loop before all the nodes have
> been
> > evaluated?
>
> I can't think of anything to achieve that.
> Can you give some more details of what you are trying to do ?
>
> Juliane.
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