AW: AW: [xsl] 1st previous node()

["Szabo, Patrick \(LNG-VIE\)" <patrick.szabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay i then guess my book isn't right about everything :-)


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Von: Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex [mailto:gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 08. Februar 2011 08:51
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Betreff: Re: AW: [xsl] 1st previous node()



On 2011-02-08 08:03, Szabo, Patrick (LNG-VIE) wrote:
> I think that preceding includes ancestors too so you could try leaving the
ancestor::*[1] out.

No, preceding doesn't include ancestors, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/

"the preceding axis contains all nodes that are descendants of the root
of the tree in which the context node is found, are not ancestors of the
context node, and occur before the context node in document order"