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 Ah-- At 06:03 PM 9/21/01, you wrote: ... Then I can find the interrupting <civil-event title="d"> by the xpath statement "following::*[name() =$element][1]/preceding-sibling::civil-event". But if the <civil-event title="d"> takes up the whole class (or, in other words is the only child of <document>) as it does in the first XML sample, then this xpath statement doesn't work. Right -- because in that case, it's not a preceding sibling of the <war> element you've found in the first step of the path. Changing the XPath to be a bit more general, as in following::*[name()=$element][1]/preceding::civil-event[1] will find it, and is in keeping with the kind of traversals you're already doing. It seems I can find everything but this situation. This is what I need help with. That XPath should match either case. But this is pretty funky stuff -- I'm not sure I like either the processing methodology or the design of the tag set very much -- but if it's working so far, then go for it. You can refactor it all later, once it's stabilized a bit. Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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