RE: [xsl] Counting preceding-siblings with a different parent

["Jim Neff" <jneff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> perhaps you want to count your preceding siblings and your preceding
cousings (ie, the children of your parent's preceding-siblings)
> count(preceding::*) + count(../preceding::*/*)



Yes that was it.  


I realized my stupidity of wanting to count sibilings of different parents,
but its still fairly early here and I've only had one cup of coffee.

Thanks David and Michael,

Jim