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Re: Preceding Ancestors
- To: Richard Mitchell <Richard dot Mitchell at vbnonline dot com>
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Preceding Ancestors
- From: Jeni Tennison <mail at jenitennison dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:41:03 +0100
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- Organization: Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd
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Hi Richard,
>>> What I can't work out is how to get at any preceding elements that
>>> are in my 'scope' i.e. from a file like
>> [..]
>>> I've tried ancestor::*/p but that will give me <p a="9"/> too.
I think you want all preceding sibling p elements of either the
current node or one of its ancestors. In other words:
ancestor-or-self::*/preceding-sibling::p
Can I have beer?
Jeni
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