XML/XSLT stylesheet/preceding sibling
preceding-sibling
File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Employees>
<Person>
<FirstName>A</FirstName>
<LastName>B</LastName>
<DateOfBirth>2008-12-12</DateOfBirth>
</Person>
<Person>
<FirstName>C</FirstName>
<LastName>D</LastName>
<DateOfBirth>2008-11-11</DateOfBirth>
</Person>
<Person>
<FirstName>E</FirstName>
<LastName>F</LastName>
<DateOfBirth>2008-10-10</DateOfBirth>
</Person>
</Employees>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>preceding-sibling axis.</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Preceding-sibling axis.</h3>
<xsl:apply-templates
select="/Employees/Person[3]/DateOfBirth" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="DateOfBirth">
<xsl:for-each select="preceding-sibling::*">
<paragraph>
<xsl:value-of select="name(.)" />
which contains the text "
<xsl:value-of select="." />
".
</paragraph>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>preceding-sibling axis.</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Preceding-sibling axis.</h3>
<paragraph>FirstName
which contains the text "
E
".
</paragraph>
<paragraph>LastName
which contains the text "
F
".
</paragraph>
</body>
</html>
preceding-sibling and following-sibling
File: Data.xml
<story>
<chapter>
<title>Chapter 1</title>
<para>para 1</para>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Chapter 2</title>
<para>item 1</para>
<para>item 2</para>
<sect>
<title>Chapter 2, Section 1</title>
<para>item 3</para>
<para>para 2</para>
</sect>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Chapter 3</title>
<para>para A</para>
</chapter>
</story>
File: Transform.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="no" />
<xsl:template match="chapter">
<chapter>
Previous chapter: (
<xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::chapter[1]/title" />
) Next chapter: (
<xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::chapter/title" />
)
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</chapter>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<chapter>
Previous chapter: (
) Next chapter: (
Chapter 2
)
Chapter 1
para 1
</chapter>
<chapter>
Previous chapter: (
Chapter 1
) Next chapter: (
Chapter 3
)
Chapter 2
item 1
item 2
Chapter 2, Section 1
item 3
para 2
</chapter>
<chapter>
Previous chapter: (
Chapter 2
) Next chapter: (
)
Chapter 3
para A
</chapter>
select="preceding-sibling::*[1]/contact/name/firstName"
File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="Transform.xslt" type="text/xsl"?>
<employees xmlns="http://www.domain.ru/namespace/employee">
<title>Employee Data File</title>
<employee eid="1" dept="programming">
<contact addInfo="info1">
<name>
<firstName>Joe</firstName>
<middleName int="B">Brian</middleName>
<lastName>Smith</lastName>
</name>
<address>
<street>1 Drive</street>
<city>Vancouver</city>
<state>BC</state>
<zipcode>80210</zipcode>
</address>
<phone>
<tel type="wk">111-1111111</tel>
<tel type="hm">222-222222</tel>
<fax>303-4667357</fax>
</phone>
<email>a@a.ru</email>
</contact>
<hireDate>2008-10-29</hireDate>
</employee>
</employees>
File: Transform.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>Employee Output</title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="employees/employee" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="employee">
<xsl:variable name="choose">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when
test="preceding-sibling::*/contact/name/firstName">
<xsl:value-of
select="preceding-sibling::*[1]/contact/name/firstName" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>Nobody</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<p>
The employee element node that is the preceding sibling of
<xsl:value-of select="self::*/contact/name/firstName" />
is for the following staff member:
<xsl:value-of select="$choose" />
</p>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Employee Output</title>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>