Thanks for the try.

What you said makes complete sense and it looked to me like it should
work, but now I have the opposite problem... It's including everything.
:p

Preceding-sibling::* means ALL preceding siblings, correct?  If not,
that may be my problem, because the XML is not sorted/grouped in an
orderly fashion *grimace*.

Chris


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Wendell Piez
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:11 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Using not(...a nd ... ) to select nodes 
> 
> 
> Chris,
> 
> Try
> 
> select="items/item[not(preceding-sibling::*
>    [name=current()/name and
>     type = current()/type and
>    status = current()/status])]"
> 
> The problem with your statement is it's testing true if there no 
> corresponding values on any preceding siblings, whereas you 
> want it to be 
> true only if there's a preceding sibling with all 
> corresponding values.
> 
> I hope that works for you--
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell



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