Parsing content between sibling nodes in poorly formed documents

[alex.cline]

I'm trying to write an XSL parser to extract all information between
two sibling nodes. The problem is, the documents are very poorly
formatted and that's where I'm running into difficulty. Here is an
example of the layout of the document:

<root>
<header>
content
</header>
<node />

content to extract.

<node />
<footer>
content
</footer>
</root>

I'm trying to extract all content between the two <node /> elements.
The data can include either text or other nested elements.

Thank you.

-- Alex

 

[David Carlisle]

I'm trying to write an XSL parser to extract all information between
two sibling nodes. The problem is, the documents are very poorly
formatted and that's where I'm running into difficulty. Here is an
example of the layout of the document:

<root>
<header>
content
</header>
<node />

content to extract.

<node />
<footer>
content
</footer>
</root>

I'm trying to extract all content between the two <node /> elements.
The data can include either text or other nested elements.

Thank you.

-- Alex

/root/*[preceding-sibling::node and following-sibling::node]

David

 

[Joseph Kesselman]

I'm trying to write an XSL parser

Uhm. Terminology problem there. Do you mean an XML parser, or an XSLT
processor, or an XSLT stylesheet?

Hard to give you a good answer without being sure what question you're
asking.

 

[alex.cline]

/root/*[preceding-sibling::node and following-sibling::node]

David

Thanks. Your solution led me to mine:

/root/*[preceding-sibling::node and following-sibling::node]|/root/
text()[preceding-sibling::node and following-sibling::node]