Just a side note: If you want to select the preceding elements
*including the ancestors*, use the XPath 2 << operator [1], which
selects the nodes that precede the current in document order [2].
In XSLT: select="*[. << current()]"
–Gerrit
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-node-before
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#document-order
On 2012-05-24 15:09, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:58 PM,<mlcook(_at_)wabtec(_dot_)com> wrote:
One additional question, please:
Preceding nodes do not include ancestors, which I've thought is odd. It
includes siblings, but not parent or grand-parent, etc.
When looking at an XML file in an editor, ancestors surely seem to be preceding
where I am in the document.
Ancestors start before where you are but they have not ended,
therefore they don't precede you.
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