Sorry, typo. For previous read preceding. My usual mistake is to type
"prior" - result of years working with Codasyl databases in my youth. When
you're on your 20th language you start mixing them up.

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sargeant, Richard (GEIS) [mailto:Richard.Sargeant@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 February 2000 11:57
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: preceding sibling test
> 
> 
> Hi Michael, 
> 
> >   I suspect what you meant to write was something like
> >
> > 	<xsl:template match="PB_ITEM">
> > 	   <xsl:apply-templates
> select="USER[not(.=previous::sibling::USER[1])]"/>
> 
>    I tried your suggestion but it doesn't work! I'm using 
> Oracle's parser
> and it aborts with "Axis 'previous' not found". I have also 
> checked the
> XPATH specs (16 Nov 1999) and there is no mention of 
> previous::sibling. Am I
> looking at the wrong specs ?
> 
>    For your information, all I'm doing is processing the results of a
> database query and each time the 'USER" changes I need to 
> print some header
> information.
> 
> regards
> Richard Sargeant
> 
> 
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