Re: Test for preceding-sibling and text

well it depends on your meaning of "work".
they are both legal Xpath expressions, so neither will cause an error,
but they test different things, it's hard to say whether either is the
test you want (without going back down the thread to see if there was
more info there)

given

zzz <A/> zzz <B/> zzz <A/><C/>

the first expression is false in <B/> and false on <C/>
the second expression is true on <B/>  and false on <C/>

David

What I wanted was to group adjacent A nodes:
<X>zzz<A/><A/><B/><A/>xxx<A/></X>

<xsl:template match="A" mode="one">
 <xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::A])">1</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="A" mode="two">
 <xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::node()[1][self::A])">2</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

Regards,
Ragulf Pickaxe :-)