How to select two elements in XSLT?

Question

XSL & XSLT

The bottom line is this: there is an XML file:

<items>
    <item id="1" src="/1.jpg" />
    <item id="2" src="/2.jpg" />
    <item id="3" src="/3.jpg" />
    <item id="4" src="/4.jpg" />
    <item id="5" src="/5.jpg" />
</items>

For an image slider there is a template like this:

...
    <ul>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="items/item" />
    </ul>
...
<xsl:template match="item">
    <li>
        <img src="@src" />
    </li>
</xsl:template>

I need to add two elements from XML to li so that the slider has two pictures in one block. How to do it?

Answer 1

Can it be like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="/items">
    <ul>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="item[position() mod 2 = 1]" />
    </ul>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="item">
    <li>
      <img src="{@src}"/>
      <img src="{following::item/@src}"/>
    </li>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Will issue

<ul>
   <li>
      <img src="/1.jpg"/>
      <img src="/2.jpg"/>
   </li>
   <li>
      <img src="/3.jpg"/>
      <img src="/4.jpg"/>
   </li>
   <li>
      <img src="/5.jpg"/>
      <img src=""/>
   </li>
</ul>