Re: XSL Previous Node

Hopefully this isn't too OT, but I found myself making the same
mistake the other day (using previous instead of preceding).  Well,
almost literally two days ago.  I quickly realized what I had done,
but I also realized there was a reason my gut instinct was to say
previous.  I had just done some work on the following-sibling axis. 
So is there a historical reason for having preceding/following instead
of one of the following: preceding/proceeding, preceding/postceding,
previous/following?

I hope there isn't too trivial of a question.  It is just one of those
things that has been sitting in the back of my mind these few days
that the list brought up again.

Jonathan Gorman

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:32:28 GMT, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Is previous axes part of XSLT/XPath 2.0?
> 
> yes
> 
> >  What if I am stuck with XSLT/XPath 1.0 for now?
> 
> It was part (of XPath 1 as well.
> 
> Except of course that I can only spell when reading messages not when
> typing them, the axis (in xpath 1 and 2) is preceding:: not previous::
> sorry about that.
> 
> David
> 
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