RE: preceding-sibling

The general syntax for steps in a path expression is

axis::nodetest[predicate]

Examples of axes are "self", "child", and "preceding-sibling"

When you write self::preceding-sibling it is looking for elements named
"preceding-sibling" on the self axis, and there aren't any elements with
that name.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kaarle Kaila [mailto:kaarle.kaila@xxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 August 2004 10:30
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  preceding-sibling
> 
> I have tried to understand how the preceding-sibling axes 
> functions but
> without success.
> 
> 
> I have an xml-file with contents like this:
> 
> 
> <table>
> <section gen="1">
> <person>John</person>
> </section>
> <section gen="2">
> <person>Mary</person>
> </section>
> <section gen="3">
> <person>William</person>
> </section>
> </table>
> 
> 
> Here Mary is Johns mother and William is Marys father.
> 
> I have as xslt file where I want to connect parent to child like this:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version = '1.0'
>      xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'
> >
> 
> <xsl:template match="table">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="section"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="section">
> <xsl:if test="position()>1">
> Parent:<xsl:value-of select="person"/>, child::<xsl:value-of
> select="self::preceding-sibling/person"/>.
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> =================
> What am I doing wrong as the result I get is:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> Parent:Mary, child::.
> Parent:William, child::.
> =====================
> I have tried to write the expression with the preceding 
> sibling in may ways
> but never get any values from it.
> 
> What would be the correct way to use this:
> 
> regards
> Kaarle Kaila