Re: [xsl] preceding sibling headaches

[Paul Tremblay <phthenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks. Both methods worked. I understand the name function (at least
now), but how does this line work:

"preceding-sibling::*[1]/self::transition"

I get from this: 

(1) Look at the preceeding-sibling axis

(2) Look at any node in the preceeding-siblings

(3) Look at the previous node

But I am a bit confused by the syntax after the "/". I thought that once
you used a predicate ([1]), you couldn't go any further in detail. (This
is what baffled me.)

Thanks

Paul

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 08:40:49AM +1200, Conal Tuohy wrote:
> 
> > Paul,
> > try changing the test to this:
> > <xsl:when test = "name(preceding-sibling::*[1])='transition'">
> 
> Or "preceding-sibling::*[1]/self::transition" which also means "the first
> preceding-sibling node, if it is a transition", without requiring the
> "name()" function-call.
> 
> > I think the way you have it now simply returns the first previous
> > occurrence of a 'transition' element rather than testing to
> > see if the
> > immediately previous element is a 'transition' element.
> 
> agree.
> 
> 
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