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Re: possible to mimic while-like behavior?
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- Subject: Re: possible to mimic while-like behavior?
- From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden at mediaone dot net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:48:59 -0500
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Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> [Carole Mah]
> >Arnold, Mike: if your solutions(s) DO in fact address "do blah
> >until you find the first foo where not bar" let me know -- I don't see
how
> >they might do so.
>
> Thinking words like "while" and "until" will get you into trouble with
> XSLT. Try to rephrase the question: "do this if it's before the first foo
> where not bar". For example (I've lost the original question now), let's
> say you have a list of <foo> siblings. One of them has a bar attribute;
> you only want the <foo>s before the first bar.
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="foo[following-siblings::*[@bar]]"/>
>
> will only select the <foo>s who have a following sibling with a bar
attribute.
>
Chris, if you wish to process a string, you will find that the type of
solution provided by Mike Brown is needed. If there existed a
string-function split(string,string) which produced a node-set result, one
could:
<ex @someval="1,2,3,4,5,6,7" />
<xsl:template match="ex">
<xsl:for-each select="split(@someval,',')">
....
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
Jonathan Borden
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