Your "important" elements are not siblings of each other, so you can't
use the following-sibling axis to locate them. Use the "following" axis,
or a more specific path expression such as 

../../following-sibling::document[1]/filtered-text/important

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Mani Malarvannan
> Sent: 04 December 2002 21:29
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  following-sibling question
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I've following XSL and XML, when I apply the XSL to the XML 
> I'm getting 
> the following output
> 
> Test 1Test 1Test 2
> 
> but I need the output to be Test 1Test 2
> 
> It shoud remove the same values that comes within the <important> 
> tag while printing it.
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet
>     version="1.0"
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
> 
> 
> <xsl:output
>     method="html"
>     doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
>     encoding="iso-8859-1"
>     indent="no" />
> 
> 
> XSL-file
> <xsl:template match="document-list" >
>   <xsl:for-each select="document/filtered-text/important[not(. = 
> following-sibling::important[1])]">
> 
>    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>   </xsl:for-each>
> 
> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> XML-file
> <document-list>
> <document>
> <filtered-text>
> <important>Test 1</important>
> </filtered-text>
> <word>
> <p>
> <WORD>word 1</WORD>
> </p>
> </word>
> </document>
> <document>
> <filtered-text>
> <important>Test 1</important>
> </filtered-text>
> <word>
> <p>
> <WORD>word 11</WORD>
> </p>
> </word>
> </document>
> <document>
> <filtered-text>
> <important>Test 2</important>
> </filtered-text>
> <word>
> <p>
> <WORD>word 11</WORD>
> </p>
> </word>
> </document>
> </document-list>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
> -Mani
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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