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Subject: RE: Preceding-siblings
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:03:35 +0100 
> <xsl:template match="document/para[preceding-sibling::title]">
> 
> Template matches a para element where the parent node is a 
> document element
> and the previous node (On the node-level underneath document) is a title
      ^^^
> element.

Note quite. For "the" read "some". To test whether _the_ preceding element
is a <title> element, use:

<xsl:template match="document/para[preceding-sibling::*[1][self::title]]">

Mike Kay


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