preceding goes all the way up to the first sibling and all of it's
children.  if you want just first the preceding sibling, do
preceding-sibling::node()[1]


At 05:51 AM 1/29/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Doesn't the preceding axis specifically exclude all ancestors, so
>//Price[.='49.95']/preceding::node()
>would not include the root anyhow?
>
>Dan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Kay [mailto:michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:40 AM
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE:  Need Xpath Question (help).
>
>
>> > I am looking for the XPath that will :
>> >
>> >      1) Return the "LineItem" with the lowest Price "in
>> each LineItems"
>> > (hint:  the parent axis is easier to get working in this
>> case than the
>> > sibling axes)
>
>If you want a single XPath expression, then:
>
>/Invoices/Invoice/LineItems/LineItem/Price[not(. > ../Price)]
>
>A more efficient approach is likely to be a recursive XSLT template.
>
>> >
>> >      2) Select all the text nodes, comment nodes,
>> processing instruction
>> > nodes, and element nodes that come before the 49.95 Price node,
>> >         except the ancestors of that Price node.
>> >
>
>//Price[.='49.95']/preceding::node()
>
>This is almost right: it also includes the root node. If you want to get
>rid
>of the root, add the predicate [generate-id(.)!=generate-id(/)].
>
>Mike Kay
>
>
>> >
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <Invoices>
>> <Invoice ID='1000'>
>>  <CustomerName>Jane Smith</CustomerName>
>> <LineItems>
>>  <LineItem>
>>  <Sku>134</Sku>
>>  <Description>Dons Boxers</Description>
>>   <Price>9.95</Price>
>> </LineItem>
>> <LineItem>
>>  <Sku>153</Sku>
>>  <Description>Rice Krispy COM Object</Description>
>> <Price>10000.00</Price>
>> </LineItem>
>>  <LineItem>
>> <Sku>72</Sku>
>> <Description>Red Vines</Description>
>> <Price>4.95</Price></LineItem></LineItems></Invoice>
>> <Invoice ID='1010'>
>> <CustomerName>Storm Phillips</CustomerName>
>> <LineItems>
>> <LineItem>
>> <Sku>171</Sku>
>> <Description>COM is LOVE T-shirt</Description>
>> <Price>9.95</Price></LineItem>
>> <LineItem>
>> <Sku>200</Sku>
>> <Description>ATL Internals</Description>
>> <Price>49.95</Price></LineItem></LineItems></Invoice>
>> <Invoice ID='1020'>
>> <CustomerName>John Stockton</CustomerName>
>> <LineItems>
>> <LineItem>
>> <Sku>53</Sku>
>> <Description>Caffeinated Beverages</Description>
>> <Price>0.50</Price></LineItem>
>> <LineItem>
>> <Sku>22</Sku>
>> <Description>Friday Pizza</Description>
>> <Price>0.00</Price></LineItem>
>> <LineItem>
>> <Sku>201</Sku>
>> <Description>MFC Internals</Description>
>> <Price>39.95</Price></LineItem></LineItems></Invoice></Invoices>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   Mitch K. Ragan
>>     Boeing Commercial Aircraft Group
>>     Global Electronic Commerce
>>     Senior Systems Analyst  425-266-3155
>>
>>
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