Re: [Xpath] Finding the *first* preceding sibling

> What did I miss in the Xpath specification?

That the steps are read left to right.

preceding-sibling::blink

selects all the preceding-sibling blink nodes so

preceding-sibling::blink[1]

selects the first of those.

So this set is non empty (so true in a boolean test) in exactly the same
cases as

preceding-sibling::blink

namely if there is a preceding-sibling blink node.

You want to find the immediately preceding node

preceding-sibling::node()[1]

then test if it is a blink


preceding-sibling::node()[1][self::blink]

David

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