> <xsl:if test="position()&gt;1 and not(starts-with(preceding::line,8)">'of
> course the first line won't have a closing line behind it

If you remove the VB-type of comment, which is syntactically incorrect in XSLT,
there will be yet another problem -- you didn't close the argument-expression 
for the not() function -- a right bracket is missing.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.

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