xsl code to get a range of nodes from xml

I have an xml like this:

<persons>
<person name="a">
</person>
<person name="f">
</person>
<person name="b">
</person>
<person name="g">
</person>
</persons>

Suppose i want to have all nodes between the one with name "f" and the one with name "g" So, parsing it with xslt, it should produce:

&开发者_StackOverflowlt;person name="b">
</person>

How can i do this??

Appreciate any help, thank you!!

In a simple list (not groups) this XPath 1.0 expression:

/persons/person[preceding-sibling::person[@name='f']]
               [following-sibling::person[@name='g']]

If there are groups, this XPath 1.0 expression:

/persons
 /person
  [count(.|preceding-sibling::person[@name='f'][1]
            /following-sibling::person[@name='g'][1]
             /preceding-sibling::*) = 
   count(preceding-sibling::person[@name='f'][1]
          /following-sibling::person[@name='g'][1]
           /preceding-sibling::*)]

In XPath 2.0 you could use for both cases:

/persons/person[preceding-sibling::person[@name='f'][1]
                 /following-sibling::person[@name='g'][1] >> .]

In XSLT 1.0 you could use:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:key name="kPersonByMarks" match="person"
             use="concat(generate-id(
                            preceding-sibling::person[@name='f'][1]),
                         '+',
                         generate-id(
                            following-sibling::person[@name='g'][1]))"/>
    <xsl:template match="person[@name='f']">
        <xsl:copy-of select="key('kPersonByMarks',
                                 concat(generate-id(),'+',
                                        generate-id(
                                           following-sibling::person
                                                      [@name='g'][1])))"/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<person name="b"></person>

Edit: Correct "including" expression for XPath 1.0, and XPath 2.0

I would use the position() function to select nodes whose position is greater than the position of the lower limit, and less than the position of the upper limit.

<xsl:apply-templates 
     match="persons/person[not(../preceding-sibling::person[f])]"/>