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Posted: **Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:27 pm**

I have data like the following (example 1):

<a>text more text text</a>

Sometimes the child element occurs right at the start of the parent <a> (example 2):

<a>more text text</a>

or right at the end (example 3):

<a>text more text</a>

I want a template to match "a/b" which will let me treat these three scenarios differently; specifically I want to be able to replace the child with different (or no) text depending on whether it is in the middle (as in 1) or at the start (2) or the end (3). For instance, I might want the result to be:

1: <a>text XXXXX text</a>
2: <a> text</a>
3: <a>text YYY</a>

I can do 1 easily:

<xsl:template match="a/b"><xsl:text>XXXXX</xsl:text></xsl:template>

But I'm not sure how to modify this to do 2 and 3. I guess this is easy, but I can't quite work out how to do it.

Posted: **Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:46 am**

You can use something like below

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  <xsl:template match="a/b[not(preceding-sibling::node())]" priority="10">

    <xsl:text>FIRST</xsl:text>

  </xsl:template>

  

  <xsl:template match="a/b[not(following-sibling::node())]" priority="5">

    <xsl:text>LAST</xsl:text>

  </xsl:template>

  

  <xsl:template match="a/b">

    <xsl:text>MIDDLE</xsl:text>

  </xsl:template>

Best Regards,
George

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