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Re: [xsl] XPath preceding Wendell Piez Mon Apr 09 09:00:35 2012 

Hi Rick,

On 4/9/2012 11:09 AM, Rick Quatro wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to find a particular element that is anywhere before the current
element like this:

preceding::case-cite

This works if the two elements have the same parent, but I want to match an
element anywhere before the current element. For example, if the context is
the<case-cite-2nd>  element, I want to find a<case-cite>  element anywhere
in the structure previous to the<case-cite-2nd>  element.


preceding::case-cite will do this.
preceding-sibling::case-cite will limit the traversal to siblings of the context node. 

If the preceding:: axis isn't working for you, please show us more code.

Cheers,
Wendell


<root>
   <section>
     <para>
       <case-cite/>
     </para>
     <para>
       <case-cite-2nd/>
     </para>
   </section>
</root>

Thanks in advance.


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