> I'm new to XSLT/XPath and have what I think is a simple 
> question that I
> just can't figure out.  I'm producing an HTML table and want 
> to suppress the value in a particular column if the previous element in 
> that column had the same value.

you want <xsl:if test="not(date = preceding-sibling::date[1])">
             <xsl:value-of select="date"/>
         </xsl:if>

Mike Kay
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