• To: "Garland foster" <garland_foster@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Quick Xpath
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 13:59:47 -0700
• Thread-index: AcIt05Eme81jL0DeTiOmb8ygqWCwhAAATzfg
• Thread-topic: Quick Xpath

The following works for me 

    //b[preceding-sibling::*[local-name()= 'a']]


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-----Original Message-----
From: Garland foster [mailto:garland_foster@s...] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 1:49 PM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject:  Quick Xpath


<foo>
<b/>
<a/>
<b/>
<a/>
<b/>
</foo>

Return all the "b" nodes that are inmediately preceded by an "a" element
(the bold nodes).

It's easy but I'm lost :-(

Thanks,
Garland.


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