Re: Finding immediately preceding node.

I want to get the a true when I am inside <b name="cde"> and
the preceding <b> contains the attribute 'name="abc"'.

T:\ftemp>type betty.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<a>
  <b name="abc"/>
     <c/>
  <b>
     <c/>
  </b>
  <b name="abc">
     <c/>
  </b>
  <b name="cde">
    <c/>
  </b>
  <b>
     <c/>
  </b>
  <b>
     <c/>
  </b>
  <b name="abc">
     <c/>
  </b>
</a>

T:\ftemp>type betty.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:for-each select="//b[@name='cde']">
    <xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::b[@name='abc']">
      <xsl:text>Found it!</xsl:text>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

T:\ftemp>saxon betty.xml betty.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>Found it!
T:\ftemp>

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