select="child::name/following-sibling::*" : value of « XSLT stylesheet « XML

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select="child::name/following-sibling::*"

File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="application/xml" href="Transform.xslt"?>
<people>
  <person born="2008" died="2008" id="1">
    <name>
      <first_name>A</first_name>
      <last_name>B</last_name>
    </name>
    <profession>A</profession>
    <profession>B</profession>
    <profession>C</profession>
  </person>

  <person born="2007" died="2007" id="2">
    <name>
      <first_name>D</first_name>
      <middle_initial>E</middle_initial>
      <last_name>F</last_name>
    </name>
    <profession>G</profession>
    <hobby>H</hobby>
  </person>

</people>

File: Transform.xslt


<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <dl>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="descendant::person"/>
    </dl>
  </xsl:template>
  
  <xsl:template match="person">
    <dt><xsl:value-of select="child::name"/></dt>
    <dd>
      <ul>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="child::name/following-sibling::*"/>
      </ul>
    </dd>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="*">
    <li><xsl:value-of select="self::*"/></li>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="homepage" 
               xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
    <li><xsl:value-of select="attribute::xlink:href"/></li>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><dl><dt>
      A
      B
    </dt><dd><ul><li>A</li><li>B</li><li>C</li></ul></dd><dt>
      D
      E
      F
    </dt><dd><ul><li>G</li><li>H</li></ul></dd></dl>

 

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