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Subject: Re: How to select immediate preceding-sibling value
From: Arulraj <p_arulraj@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:36:55 -0800 (PST)
immediate preceding sibling
Thanks for the help

Regards,
Raj

--- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> 		<xsl:for-each select="child::*">
> you can just use select="*" child:: is implied.
> 			<xsl:if test="name()='PanelName'">
> 
> better to use test="self::'PanelName" rather than
> testing name()
> 				<xsl:value-of
>
select="current()/preceding-sibling::Process/@name"/>
> 
> you never need to start with current() as relative
> paths always start
> from the current node. In this case you select the
> name attributes of
> all preceding siblings but value-of (in xslt1) gives
> the string value of
> just the first node in document order. If you just
> want to select the
> nearest sibling use
> select="preceding-sibling::Process[1]/@name"
> 
> But there is no need to for-each over all nodes and
> then have an xsl:if
> test that just picks out the one you want, just
> for-each over your
> PanelName elements:
> 
> I think you just want
> 
> 		<xsl:for-each select="PanelName">
> 				<xsl:text>current node---	</xsl:text>
> 				<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
> 				<xsl:text>Preceding sibling---</xsl:text>
> 				<xsl:value-of
> select="preceding-sibling::Process[1]/@name"/>
> 				<xsl:text>
> 				</xsl:text>
> 		</xsl:for-each>
> 
> David
> 
>
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