Re: [xml-dev] are the regular expressions over xml structure?

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

> Meanwhile, I've remembered a more demonstrative example then h1/p
> grouping:
>
> "element(image), element(caption), element(table[some condition])"
>
> an image with the caption and a legend table is to be grouped. In my
> xslt stylesheets, the grouping code is far away from readability and
> maintainability. That's why I'm looking for a better approach.

You could do it with match patterns:

    <xsl:template match="image">
        image element not followed by caption and table[condition]
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template
match="image[following-sibling::*[1][self::caption]][following-sibling::*[2][self::table[@type
= '1']]]">
        the group
    </xsl:template>


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