Re: comment() node test

[Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

Evan Lenz wrote:
> "preceding-sibling::node()[not(self::text())][1][self::comment()]"
> 
> This worked just as well.

Here you are getting the set of non-text preceding siblings, taking the
first node in that set, and testing it to see if it's a comment. If the
first non-text preceding sibling is not a comment, this would fail, I
believe.

Isn't "preceding-sibling::comment()[1]" what you want? i.e. from among the
preceding siblings that are comments, the ones (one) for which the context
position is 1?

   - Mike
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