Question

I wonder if anyone knows how to get a specified amount of elements for following-siblings or preceding-siblings functions in XPath and XSLT (e.g. I only need 2 elements of the following siblings of the current element).

Answer 1

Use an expression of the following form:

/<path_to_element>/following-sibling::*[(position() - 1) < $n]

For example, to get the 3 siblings following <c/> in the following document:

<test>
    <a/>
    <b/>
    <c/>
    <d/>
    <e/>
    <f/>
    <g/>
</test>

Use the following expression:

/*/c/following-sibling::*[(position() - 1) < 3]