Re: Immediacy of preceding-siblings

Subject: Re: Immediacy of preceding-siblings
From: Warren Hedley <w.hedley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 15:00:32 +1200
Matthew Bentley wrote:
> 
> Does "preceding-sibling::*[1]" select the immediately preceding sibling, or
> would that be "preceding-sibling::*[last()]" ?

You want to have a look at section 2.4 of the XPath spec.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#predicates

Basically, the preceding-sibling axis is a reverse axis, and position() returns
the proximity of the node in the node-set with respect to the context node. So
preceding-sibling::*[1] should return the immediately preceding sibling.

-- 
Warren Hedley


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