> Isn't "preceding-sibling::comment()[1]" what you want? i.e. 
> from among the
> preceding siblings that are comments, the ones (one) for 
> which the context
> position is 1?

I think he wanted the preceding comment only if there wasn't an intervening
element...

Mike Kay


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