RE: Finding immediately preceding node.

G. Ken Holman wrote:
> Betty Harvey wrote:
> At 2003-06-02 09:56 -0400, Betty Harvey wrote:
> >I want to get the a true when I am inside <b name="cde"> and
> >the preceding <b> contains the attribute 'name="abc"'.
> 
>      <xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::b[@name='abc']">

Then Betty wrote:
> 	I am taking Ken's advice and rewriting
> the XSLT to use <xsl:for-each> but I am still 
> having difficulty finding the immediately preceding-sibling.
> Now it is always giving a true because there is a qualifying
> sibling in the tree.

I think Ken means

      <xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::b[1][@name='abc']">
                                        ^^^
This would solve the problem that Betty encountered.

Lars


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