RE: Immediately preceding-sibling

> Thanks everyone, this was just what I was looking for! I'm 
> not sure I understand the '[self::nospace]' part, though (the 
> rest is clear to me). Could anyone explain the 'grammar' for me?

self::nospace selects the context node if it is a nospace element, or
nothing if it is not. So its value is a set of zero or one nodes. When
used in a boolean context such as [], a node-set containing one node
evaluates to true and an empty node-set to false. So XXX[self::nospace]
returns those nodes in XXX that are nospace elements.

Michael Kay

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> Mick
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> RE:  Immediately preceding-sibling
> 
> To test whether the immediately preceding element is a 
> nospace element, use
> 
> test="preceding-sibling::*[1][self::nospace]"
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> Michael Kay
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