Thanks Ken:
Your example reinforces my theory that I was going
to have to rewrite the current model and use the 'for-each'.
I was trying to avoid rewriting some complex models but I
I guess there isn't an easy way of looking back at the
parent, then the immediate preceding node without the template
being in the parent node.
Thanks again!
Betty
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, G. Ken Holman wrote:
At 2003-06-02 09:56 -0400, Betty Harvey wrote:
I want to get the a true when I am inside <b name="cde"> and
the preceding <b> contains the attribute 'name="abc"'.
<xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::b[(_at_)name='abc']">
A complete illustration is below where I start off in the <b name="cde">
and test the preceding-sibling <b>.
I hope this helps, Betty,
.............. Ken
T:\ftemp>type betty.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<a>
<b name="abc"/>
<c/>
<b>
<c/>
</b>
<b name="abc">
<c/>
</b>
<b name="cde">
<c/>
</b>
<b>
<c/>
</b>
<b>
<c/>
</b>
<b name="abc">
<c/>
</b>
</a>
T:\ftemp>type betty.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="//b[(_at_)name='cde']">
<xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::b[(_at_)name='abc']">
<xsl:text>Found it!</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>saxon betty.xml betty.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>Found it!
T:\ftemp>
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