XML Tutorial/XPath/following
following axis contains all nodes that come after the context node, but excludes all descendant nodes.
File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<data>
<AAA id="a1" pos="start">
<BBB id="b1"/>
<BBB id="b2"/>
</AAA>
<AAA id="a2">
<BBB id="b3"/>
<BBB id="b4"/>
<CCC id="c1">
<CCC id="c2"/>
</CCC>
<BBB id="b5">
<CCC id="c3"/>
</BBB>
</AAA>
</data>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<table border="1" cellpadding="6">
<tr>
<th colspan="2">Axis: following</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Element</th>
<td>Node-set</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="/source//*">
<xsl:call-template name="print"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="print">
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
<xsl:text> id = </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="./@id"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:for-each select="following::*">
<xsl:if test="not(@id)">
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="./@id"/>
<xsl:text/>
</xsl:for-each>
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><table border="1" cellpadding="6"><tr><th colspan="2">Axis: following</th></tr><tr><td>Element</th><td>Node-set</th></tr></table>
if test="not(descendant::*[name()=name(current())] | following::*[name()=name(current())])"
File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<data>
<AAA>
<BBB id="b1">
<CCC name="q" size="12"/>
<EEE id="e1">
<SSS/>
</EEE>
<CCC weight="45"/>
<CCC/>
</BBB>
</AAA>
<AAA>
<EEE id="e2"/>
<CCC>
<DDD/>
<DDD/>
</CCC>
</AAA>
</data>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<TABLE border="1" width="90%">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//*"/>
</TABLE>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:if test="not(descendant::*[name()=name(current())] | following::*[name()=name(current())])">
<TR>
<TD>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
</TD>
<TD>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="list"/>
</TD>
</TR>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*" mode="list">
<xsl:for-each select="//*[name()=name(current())]/*">
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><TABLE border="1" width="90%"><TR><TD>data</TD><TD>AAAAAA</TD></TR><TR><TD>BBB</TD><TD>CCCEEECCCCCC</TD></TR><TR><TD>SSS</TD><TD/></TR><TR><TD>AAA</TD><TD>BBBEEECCC</TD></TR><TR><TD>EEE</TD><TD>SSS</TD></TR><TR><TD>CCC</TD><TD>DDDDDD</TD></TR><TR><TD>DDD</TD><TD/></TR></TABLE>