Betty Harvey wrote:
> Thanks Ken:
> 
> 	Your example reinforces my theory that I was going
> to have to rewrite the current model and use the 'for-each'.
> I was trying to avoid rewriting some complex models but I
> I guess there isn't an easy way of looking back at the
> parent, then the immediate preceding node without the template
> being in the parent node.

Betty, I can't see why not.
Your test expression,

  <xsl:if test="../b[@name='cde']/preceding-sibling::b[1]/@name='abc'">

looks like it should work, assuming that the context node
is a child of <b>, e.g. if it's in a template that matches "c" elements.

Maybe if you showed more of your xslt code we could see why you're
never getting a 'true'.

Lars


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