XPath : select all following siblings until another sibling

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You could do it this way:

../node[not(text()) and preceding-sibling::node[@id][1][@id='1']]

where '1' is the id of the current node (generate the expression dynamically).

The expression says:

  • from the current context go to the parent
  • select those child nodes that
  • have no text and
  • from all “preceding sibling nodes that have an id” the first one must have an id of 1

If you are in XSLT you can select from the following-sibling axis because you can use the current() function:

<!-- the for-each is merely to switch the current node -->
<xsl:for-each select="node[@id='1']">
  <xsl:copy-of select="
    following-sibling::node[
      not(text()) and
      generate-id(preceding-sibling::node[@id][1])
      =
      generate-id(current())
    ]
  " />
</xsl:for-each>

or simpler (and more efficient) with a key:

<xsl:key 
  name="kNode" 
  match="node[not(text())]" 
  use="generate-id(preceding-sibling::node[@id][1])"
/>

<xsl:copy-of select="key('kNode', generate-id(node[@id='1']))" />

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