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cauchy keSubject: last node in preceding-sibling
Author: cauchy ke
Date: 04 Apr 2007 11:14 PM
Hi, I use this to search the receding-sibling node:
preceding-sibling::Macro[@name='file' and last()]/family/firstname

but the problem is it will return all the preceding sibling and position on the first node. What I want is the last node, which means the node very close the self.

Any idea?
Thanks a lot!

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(Deleted User) Subject: last node in preceding-sibling
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 05 Apr 2007 03:56 AM
Hi,
if you want the closest node to the context node you should not use last(), but position()=1 (preceding-sibling is a reverse axis.
But placing the check in "and" with a test for an attribute value will match only if the previous node is a match; if you want to select the closest match, you will have to split the predicate in two

preceding-sibling::Macro[@name='file'][1]/family/firstname

(the first predicate will create a list of matching nodes, and the [1] will pick the closest)

Hope this helps,
Alberto

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Bob ChauvinSubject: last node in preceding-sibling
Author: Bob Chauvin
Date: 29 Jun 2007 05:07 PM
So, any idea on this type of xpath? I need the preceding-sibling for lu_Group

/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/tns:Get_ContactFlagsResponse/tns:Get_ContactFlagsResult/NewDataSet/Areas_of_Interest

Any help is appreciated

 
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