Karl,
Please double check your code. I would expect "every preceding
element's first comment tag" to be
"preceding-sibling::*/comment()[1]" (note extra step). The expression
you provided us, "preceding-sibling::comment()[1]", would select the
first preceding (sibling) comment.
If you want the first preceding node, but only if it's a comment, that would be
preceding-sibling::node()[1][self::comment()]
but note that whitespace-only text nodes can impede that.
Working around those would be
preceding-sibling::node()[not(self::text()[not(normalize-space()])]
[1][self::comment()]"
... which I know is a monster, but there you have it.
Cheers,
Wendell
At 04:53 PM 12/21/2006, you wrote:
I need to match the first comment() preceding the current context.
So from:
<!--
this is the comments, first preceding
-->
<xsl:template name="example">
</xs:template>
Assuming that this xpath should work:
<xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::comment()[1]"/>
But instead, I am matching on every preceding elements first comment
tag. I just need "your" comment tag, and if you don't have one, then
nevermind.
Please help.
Karl..
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