Re: [xsl] get immediat preceeding node, if it is a comment

[Joerg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx>]

What about preceding vs. following ;-)

But the result is the same.

Joerg

David Carlisle wrote:
> > Sure.  But aren't they both the same (they select the same node)? 
>
>
> No.
>
> If you are in <a/> in 
>
> <x>
>  <a/><b>b</b><!--x--><c/>
> </x>
>
>  preceding-sibling::node()[normalize-space()][self::comment()][1]
>
> selects the comment <!--x--> as that is the first node that is
> non empty string value and is a comment.
>
> preceding-sibling::node()[normalize-space()][1][self::comment()]
>
> selects the empty node set as the first node with non empty string value
> is not a comment.
>
> David

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