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Re: [xsl] testing for preceding-sibling's

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Rob,

At 02:07 PM 9/2/2003, you wrote:

so far, what seems to work is

match="section[preceding-sibling::*[local-name() != 'title']]"

as in, match any section that has at least one non-title preceding
sibling.

  is that a reasonable way to do it?  or is there a much more
elegant way i'm missing?

It's reasonable, although

match="section[preceding-sibling::*[not(self::title)]]"

is perhaps a little more elegant. And it's namespace safe. (The way you did it is necessary when testing attributes, however, since the self:: axis won't select attributes.)

Cheers,
Wendell

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