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.

	Thanks again!

Betty

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, G. Ken Holman wrote:

> At 2003-06-02 09:56 -0400, Betty Harvey wrote:
> >I want to get the a true when I am inside <b name="cde"> and
> >the preceding <b> contains the attribute 'name="abc"'.
> 
>      <xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::b[@name='abc']">
> 
> A complete illustration is below where I start off in the <b name="cde"> 
> and test the preceding-sibling <b>.
> 
> I hope this helps, Betty,
> 
> .............. Ken
> 
> T:\ftemp>type betty.xml
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <a>
>    <b name="abc"/>
>       <c/>
>    <b>
>       <c/>
>    </b>
>    <b name="abc">
>       <c/>
>    </b>
>    <b name="cde">
>      <c/>
>    </b>
>    <b>
>       <c/>
>    </b>
>    <b>
>       <c/>
>    </b>
>    <b name="abc">
>       <c/>
>    </b>
> </a>
> 
> T:\ftemp>type betty.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                  version="1.0">
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>    <xsl:for-each select="//b[@name='cde']">
>      <xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::b[@name='abc']">
>        <xsl:text>Found it!</xsl:text>
>      </xsl:if>
>    </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> T:\ftemp>saxon betty.xml betty.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>Found it!
> T:\ftemp>
> 
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