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Re: Quick Xpath

• To: dareo@m...
• Subject: Re: Quick Xpath
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:17:17 +0100
• Cc: garland_foster@s..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <8BD7226E07DDFF49AF5EF4030ACE0B7E0696F641@r...>(dareo@m...)
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> I'm pretty sure that's wrong but I'll wait for Jeni, Dave Carlisle, Mike
> Kay or one of the other XPath experts to confirm this before jumping to
> conclusions. 

the posted xpath was wrong, the evaluater was right. I'm not sure what 
is "that's" in your quote.

 b[preceding-sibling::*
selects _all_ preceding siblings of th eb
so
b[preceding-sibling::*[local-name()= 'a']
selects all b with any a earlier.
so you need [1] and also it's always better to use self:: than name() or
local-name()

//b[preceding-sibling::*[1][self::a]

David

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