Re: [xsl] RE: Finding the closest preceding element within the containing block

[Vasu Chakkera <vasucv@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike,
Preceding-sibling allways brings you the sibling under the same
parent. So you will never get a "C" element from a different B parent.
But sometimes there could be a situation where you are having to use
preceding as opposed to the preceding-sibling, then there is a chance
that you may go out into other parents..  in those cases, if you want
to make sure that the two nodes that you are selecting have a common
ancestor node, then you could  use  key() function, with the third
parameter of the key ( xslt 2 ) as the common ancestor.( the third
parameter of the key in xslt 2 gives the context under which the key
is being evaluated)..
Hope this helped
Vasu

On 21 May 2012 19:20,  <mlcook@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the response (also suggested by Syd Bauman) and follow-up emails
from Michele Combs to refine the test on a more complex document structure.
>
> With my other document variation, I ended up also using ../preceding-sibling
to look into previous "b" elements.
>
> I've started going through the tutorial suggested by ihe onwuka.
>
> Thanks again for this help and all the previous info I've gleaned from the
postings.
>
> --Mike Cook
>
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