Re: selecting following attribute

 On 9/17/2010 11:06 AM, David Carlisle wrote:
> On 17/09/2010 17:02, Terry Ofner wrote:
>>   <xsl:value-of select="following::*[1]/@startNum
>
>
> that says take the next element and then take its startNum attribute,
> so if the next element hasn't got such an attribute you get nothing.
> you want the startNum attribute of the next element that has one
>
> <xsl:value-of select="following::*[@startNum][1]/@startNum

Out of curiosity, would it work to say
  <xsl:value-of select="(following::*/@startNum)[1]" />
?
I think so, but I often get tripped up by those positional predicates.

Lars