> I think the only way of accessing the preceding node in 
> sorted order is to
> create a sorted copy of the original data and then process 
> this using the
> node-set() extension function. Either that, or find a 
> different solution to
> the requirement.

Could this be a good argument for following-node and preceding-node axes?

Jason.

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