It sounds as if the problems with your current code might be fairly trivial,
so show us the code and let's see if you're already 99% of the way there,
rather than starting again from scratch.

Having said that, I would normally tackle this using <xsl:for-each-group
group-starting-with="br"> rather than using the << and >> operators, which
are at a rather more primitive level.

Regards,

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ylvisaker, Steve [mailto:steve.j.ylvisaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 08 January 2010 22:13
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Trying to select sibling nodes between two nodes
> 
> 
> I have some unfortunate xml that I am trying to parse:
>  
> <label>first text<br/>second<emphasis>bold</emphasis> 
> text<br/>third text</label>
>  
> I need to transform this into:
>  
> <label>
>  <flowPara>first text</flowPara>
>  <flowPara>second<emphasis>bold</emphasis> text</flowPara>  
> <flowPara>third text</flowPara> </label>
>  
> Basically I need to select nodes between nodes in a "flat" 
> data progression. I can think of some ugly approaches that 
> would accomplish this but it seems I should be able to use 
> "<<" and ">>" to select nodes between occurrences of <br/>. 
> However, no matter how I attempt to use these operators the 
> result is a syntax error with "<" being illegal.
>  
> Can anyone point me to an example of how I can unflatten this xml?
>  
> Thanks in advance - Steve
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