self::preceding-sibling/person"/>.
The syntax for an axis is (in the basic case) axis::name and finds all
elements called name on tha axis, so the above uses the self axis (which
just has the current node) and finds all elements called
preceding-sibling then finds children of that called person
(It is an abreviated form of
self::preceding-sibling/child::person
in other wirds if teh current element is called preceding-sibling
it finds its children called person, otherwise it is empty.
If you want preceding sibling's called person that is
preceding-sibling::person
but I think you want
preceding-sibling::section/person
Note that preceding-sibling::section selects _all_ preceding siblings,
and preceding-sibling::section/person selects all their children, but if
you
use xsl:value-of it will (always) just take the first selected node in
document order.
I think you want the _immediately_ preceding sibling, so that woul dbe
preceding-sibling::section[1]/person
David
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