Thanks,

That is the exact thing I'm looking for. It works as
expected.

Dongling
> 
> Within a match pattern one would write:
> 
>      Member[@name =
>
'acc1']/Member[following-sibling::Member[@name='acc11']]
> 
> 
> So, this transformation:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
>  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
>     <xsl:copy>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
>     </xsl:copy>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match=
>   "Member[@name = 'acc1']
>            /
>            
> Member[following-sibling::Member[@name='acc11']]"/>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> when applied on this source.xml:
> 
> <D>
>    <Member comment="" name="acc1">
>      <Calc>+</Calc>
>      <Member comment="" name="acc101">
>        <Calc>+</Calc>
>      </Member>
>      <Member comment="" name="acc1021">
>        <Calc>+</Calc>
>      </Member>
>      <Member comment="" name="acc11">
>        <Calc>+</Calc>
>        <Member name="account3_1"/>
>      </Member>
>      <Member comment="" name="acc12">
>        <Calc>+</Calc>
>        <Member name="acc121"/>
>      </Member>
>    </Member>
>    <Member comment="" name="acc2">
>      <Calc>+</Calc>
>    </Member>
>    <Member comment="" name="acc3">
>      <Calc>+</Calc>
>      <Member comment="" name="acc31">
>        <Calc>+</Calc>
>      </Member>
>      <Member comment="" name="acc11">
>        <Calc>+</Calc>
>      </Member>
>    </Member>
> </D>
> 
> produces the wanted result, in which all preceding
> siblings of the "Member"
> with name="acc11" (which is a child of the Member
> with name="acc1") are
> removed :
> 
> 
> <D>
>    <Member comment="" name="acc1">
>      <Calc>+</Calc>
> 
> 
>      <Member comment="" name="acc11">
>        <Calc>+</Calc>
>        <Member name="account3_1"/>
>      </Member>
>      <Member comment="" name="acc12">
>        <Calc>+</Calc>
>        <Member name="acc121"/>
>      </Member>
>    </Member>
>    <Member comment="" name="acc2">
>      <Calc>+</Calc>
>    </Member>
>    <Member comment="" name="acc3">
>      <Calc>+</Calc>
>      <Member comment="" name="acc31">
>        <Calc>+</Calc>
>      </Member>
>      <Member comment="" name="acc11">
>        <Calc>+</Calc>
>      </Member>
>    </Member>
> </D>
> 
> 
> =====
> Cheers,
> 
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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