Get all preceding and following siblings for a given node

Question

I have the following XML snippet:

    
        Specification_Characteristics
        

        

Answer 1

One way is brute-force:

/root/CharacteristicUse/Value[ValueID='555']/preceding-sibling::* | /root/CharacteristicUse/Value[ValueID='555']/following-sibling::*

This includes the "UseArea" node also, not sure if you want that.

Or if what you want is just all the values that are NOT a particular value, then

/root/CharacteristicUse/Value[not(ValueID='555')]

is more direct.