RE: Finding the preceeding node.

[Avi Kivity <Avi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, July 06, 1999 20:11, Jon Haugsand [SMTP:Jon.Haugsand@xxxxx]
wrote:
> In order to make a horisontal link in my document structure where
> chapters, sections, etc. are on separate files, I have the
> following
> construction:
> 
> (define *kap-ent* '("KAPITTEL" "DEFINISJONER" "REFERANSE"
> "REFLIST"))
> (define (preceeding-chapter
>        (node-list-last (node-list-filter
> 			(lambda (x) (member (gi x) *kap-ent*))
> 			(preced (current-node))))))
> 
> 
> The idea is to pick out the preceeding node that is chapter like.

This seems right.

> However, I don't seem to get this to work. Any suggestions?
> 

Perhaps you're never calling it when (current-node) is after one of these.

> By the way, how do you debug your dsssl specifications?
> 

with (debug) and (my-debug).

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