> What I need to
> do is in each node go recursively through each parent and check whether it
> has any siblings.. but I'm not sure how to do that
> 
>    <xsl:for-each select="self::node()/parent::post">
>     </xsl:for-each>
> 
> seems only to check the parent of the current node, not that parent's
> parent, and that parents parent parent.. you get the drift..

It seems you want something like

<xsl:for-each select="ancestor::*"> ... </xsl:for-each>
visits all ancestors

<xsl:for-each select="ancestor::post"> ... </xsl:for-each>
visits only post ancestors 

Cheers,
Oliver


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