Hi Wendel,

> Just to be crystal clear -- why are you recommending the preceding::
axis 
> here and not preceding-sibling? Won't the latter work as well and be
less 
> expensive?

The latter won't work because there may be more than one node having
the same number of ancestors and the same number of (preceding and/or
following) siblings.




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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

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