Hi,

With a sequence of variable declarations:

<xsl:variable name="name" select="name()"/>
<xsl:variable name="followers" select="following-sibling::*[name()=$name]"/>
<xsl:variable name="interlopers"
select="following-sibling::*[not(name()=$name)] |
following-sibling::*[not(name()=$name)]/following-sibling::*"/>
<xsl:variable name="invited" select=". |
$followers[not(count(.|$interlopers)=count($interlopers))]"/>

Note: untested.

Good luck,
Wendell


On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 8:32 PM Wolfhart Totschnig
wolfhart.totschnig@xxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I am facing an XPath problem for which I cannot find the solution. I
> want to select all following sibling elements of name "foo" up to the
> first non-"foo" element. So, in the following case, the first two <foo>
> elements should be selected:
>
> <foo/>
> <foo/>
> <bar/>
> <foo/>
>
> In the following case, all three <foo> elements should be selected:
>
> <foo/>
> <foo/>
> <foo/>
>
> And in the following case, nothing should be selected:
>
> <bar/>
> <foo/>
> <foo/>
>
> I came up with the following non-working approach:
>
>              <xsl:choose>
>                  <xsl:when
> test="not(following-sibling::*[not(self::foo)])">
>                      <xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::*"/>
>                  </xsl:when>
>                  <xsl:otherwise>
>                      <xsl:value-of
>
> select="following-sibling::*[not(self::source)][1]/preceding-sibling::*[self::source][preceding-sibling::current()]"/>
>                  </xsl:otherwise>
>              </xsl:choose>
>
> That is, test whether there are non-"foo" following siblings. If there
> are none, take all following siblings. If there are, go forward to the
> first non-"foo" sibling, and from there go backwards, taking all the
> "foo" siblings up to the current node.
>
> But this does not work. Apparently, the expression
> "preceding-sibling::current()" is not a valid construct. So what is the
> correct way to do what I have in mind (or a simpler solution, if there
> is one). Please note that this stylesheet needs to be executed by a web
> browser, and so the solution has to remain within XPath 1.0.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> Wolfhart
> 
>
>

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