RE: Finding immediately preceding node.

[ Betty Harvey]

> I want to get the a true when I am inside <b name="cde"> and
> the preceding <b> contains the attribute 'name="abc"'.  
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <a>
>   <b name="abc"/>
>      <c/>
>   <b>
>      <c/>
>   </b>
>   <b name="abc">
>      <c/>
>   </b>
>   <b name="cde">
>     <c/>
>

Only guessing without more info (see my previous post), but it seems to
me that the easiest thing, if you are going to use templates for "b"
nodes that call templates for their child  nodes, is to test the
condition in the "b" template and then pass it along as a parameter to
all other templates that get invoked.  Something like this -

<xsl:template match="/a">
<result>
	<xsl:apply-templates select='b'/>
</result>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match='b'>
   <xsl:variable name='meets-condition' 
       select='@name="cde" and preceding-sibling::b[1]/@name="abc"'/>

   <xsl:apply-templates select='c'>
      <xsl:with-param name='meets-condition' select='$meets-condition'/>
   </xsl:apply-templates>	
	   
</xsl:template>

Cheers,

Tom P

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