XSL: break for-each loop Help required !

[back2grave]

Hi,

I'm a newbee to XSLT. Just wanted to know if its possible to break from a for-each loop. Pls refer to the following sample : For e.g. I've a xml like this.

<catalog>
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<price>10</price>
</cd>
<cd>
<title>Hide your heart</title>
<artist>Bonnie Tyler</artist>
<price>20</price>
</cd>
<cd>
<title>Greatest Hits</title>
<artist>Dolly Parton</artist>
<price>30</price>
</cd>
<cd>
<title>Billborad Hits</title>
<artist>John Denver</artist>
<price>50</price>
</cd>
</catalog>

I've the following xsl,

<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
<xsl:if test="price &gt; 10">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

This will iterate for cd element even if the price match happens at the very first occurance. I want to stop the iteration once the match happens. In my case,the xml data I'm working on holds big amount of data. My if condition matched a primary key which will only have a single occurance in the entire xml. So all I need is
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<price>10</price>
</cd>

Is it possible to avoid the unnecessary iterations,which might prove a performance hinderance for a big xml ?

Any pointers will be highly appreciated.

Thanks

[JBoland]

If you extract the nodes you want right off the bat in the for-each loop you should get the results you want. Just change your XPath to read: /catalog/cd[price > 10 and position() = 1]. See below.

<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd[price &gt; 10 and position() = 1]">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>

If that doesn't work you could also do this, although performance isn't as good:

<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd[price &gt; 10]">
<xsl:if test="position() = 1">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>