Re: FW: Using a processing instruction to remove a nod

preceding-sibling::processing-instruction('REMOVE')

will find that processing instruction from _all_ following sibling nodes
but you only want to look at the immediately preceding node which is not
white space and test if it is a processing instruction; so that is:

preceding-sibling::node()[not(self::text() and .='')][1][self::processing-instruction('REMOVE')]

David


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