Hi,

   Yes, preceding-sibling does work now. I changed my original xsl:if test
to the following and it now works perfectly. However, I could not get it to
work directly within the 'select' ?

<xsl:template match="PB_ITEM">
	<xsl:if test =
"not(./USER=preceding-sibling::PB_ITEM[position()=1]/USER)">
		<xsl:apply-templates select="USER"/>
	</xsl:if>

regards
Richard Sargeant


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