Hi Martin,

That does work. Thank you very much. I am not familiar with this construction.
Does the . refer to the section[1] element? Thanks.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
[mailto:xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 5:20 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Select everything up to and including the first <section>

On 12.04.2017 23:06, Rick Quatro rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Here is my xml:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <chapter>
>      <title>Title</title>
>      <intro>
>          <p>Intro</p>
>      </intro>
>      <section></section>
>      <section></section>
>      <section></section>
> </chapter>
>
> My context node is the <chapter> element. I want to select everything
> up to and including the first <section>.


Then one way is
   section[1]/(preceding-sibling::node(), .) in XSLT 2.0.