RE: preceding-sibling

> your answer is what I meant but I made a mistake in the mail :)
> Anyway, I can't make it work ... and I don't understand why.
>
> <xsl:when
> test="@type='{preceding-sibling::element[position()=1]/@type}V
> alueMap'">
>
> This is exactly what I'm tryin to do.
> I test the value of the 'type' attribute of the current node
> compared to
> the value of the 'type' attribute of the preceding node concatenated
> with "ValueMap".

You can't use an attribute value template within an XPath expression. Write

test="@type=concat(preceding-sibling::element[position()=1]/@type,
'ValueMap')">

Mike Kay
Software AG


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