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I am attempting to write XSLT that will run a for-each on the selected following-siblings but stop when another tag (h1) is reached.

Here's the Source XML:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html>
    <h1>Test</h1>
    <p>Test: p 1</p>
    <p>Test: p 2</p>
    <h1>Test 2</h1>
    <p>Test2: p 1</p>
    <p>Test2: p 2</p>
    <p>Test2: p 3</p>
</html>

Here's the XSLT:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <content>
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </content>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="h1">
        <section>
            <sectionHeading>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </sectionHeading>
            <sectionContent>
                <xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::p">
                    <paragraph>
                        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                    </paragraph>
                </xsl:for-each>
            </sectionContent>
        </section>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="p"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Here's the current result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<content>
    <section>
        <sectionHeading>Test</sectionHeading>
        <sectionContent>
            <paragraph>Test: p 1</paragraph>
            <paragraph>Test: p 2</paragraph>
            <paragraph>Test: p 3</paragraph>
            <paragraph>Test2: p 1</paragraph>
            <paragraph>Test2: p 2</paragraph>
        </sectionContent>
    </section>
    <section>
        <sectionHeading>Test 2</sectionHeading>
        <sectionContent>
            <paragraph>Test2: p 1</paragraph>
            <paragraph>Test2: p 2</paragraph>
        </sectionContent>
    </section>
</content>

Here's the expected result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<content>
<section>
    <sectionHeading>Test</sectionHeading>
    <sectionContent>
        <paragraph>Test: p 1</paragraph>
        <paragraph>Test: p 2</paragraph>
        <paragraph>Test: p 3</paragraph>
    </sectionContent>
</section>
<section>
    <sectionHeading>Test 2</sectionHeading>
    <sectionContent>
        <paragraph>Test2: p 1</paragraph>
        <paragraph>Test2: p 2</paragraph>
    </sectionContent>
</section>
</content>
+4  A: 

Try this: (Instead of asking for all the p's we ask for all the p's whose most recently preceding h1 is current.)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <content>
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </content>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="h1">
        <xsl:variable name="header" select="."/>
        <section>
            <sectionHeading>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </sectionHeading>
            <sectionContent>
                <xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::p[preceding-sibling::h1[1] = $header]">
                    <paragraph>
                        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                    </paragraph>
                </xsl:for-each>
            </sectionContent>
        </section>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="p"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Kyle Butt
Just tested this out and it's working perfectly. Thank you very much.
Tim
If it works, accept the solution.
Kyle Butt
Answer accepted.
Tim