Access only next sibling element with XSL

[Michael K?nig]

Hello,

I've an XML-file structured like this

<table>
<tr>
<td>Nombre:</td>
<td>Joseph</td>
<td>Apellido: </td>
<td>Ratzinger </td>
<td>Posición: </td>
<td>Pope</td>
</tr>
</table>

I'like to extract the personal data depending on the label which
stands in the sibling <td> before, the result should look like this:

<person>
<name>Joseph</name>
<surname>Ratzin ger</surname>
<profession>Pop e</profession>
</person>
I know what labels can appear ("Nombre:", "Apellido:","Po sición:") but
I don't know if they appear within the <tr>-Element and in which
order, so I can't use [position()=2] etc.

How do I realize this using XSLT?

I tried

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:styleshe et version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
<xsl:template match="table">
<person>
<name><xsl:appl y-templates
select="td[text()='Nombre: ']"/></name>
<surname><xsl:a pply-templates
select="td[text()='Appelli do:']"/></surname>
<profession><xs l:apply-templates
select="td[text()='Posició n:']"/></profession>
</person>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="td[text()='Nombre: ']">
<xsl:value-of select="followi ng-sibling::td" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="td[text()='Appelli do:']">
<xsl:value-of select="followi ng-sibling::td" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="td[text()='Posició n:']">
<xsl:value-of select="followi ng-sibling::td" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

But the problem I have is that 'following-sibling::td' accesses ALL
following-siblings and not only the next.
I could imagine a solution making use of something like

[position()=td[text()='Nombre: ']position()+1]

but I don't know how to implemt it in XSLT.

Any suggestion? Thanks in advance.
Michael

[Richard Tobin]

In article <99************ **************@ posting.google. com>,
Michael K?nig <ko****@gmail.c om> wrote:

<xsl:template match="td[text()='Nombre: ']">
<xsl:value-of select="followi ng-sibling::td" />
</xsl:template>

You probably want:

<xsl:value-of select="followi ng-sibling::td[1]" />

which will give you the first following td sibling.

-- Richard

[David Carlisle]

But the problem I have is that 'following-sibling::td' accesses ALL
following-siblings and not only the next.

That is true but is not your problem as you are using this with
xsl:value-of
<xsl:value-of select="followi ng-sibling::td" />
and value-of _always_ discards all but the first node in document order
and gives the string value of that first node only.

If you want to make it explicit (and legal in xslt2) you can go

<xsl:value-of select="followi ng-sibling::td[1]" />

But this makes no difference in xslt1.
David