Yes.
Given your XML snippet, if you want to test if the element node named "context" is immediately preceded by an element node named "foo", this will do it.

<xsl:if test="context/preceding-sibling::node()[1][name()='foo']">Yes</xsl:if>
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-----Original Message-----
From:     Jamie McLaughlin <j.mclaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:39:48 -0000
To:       <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:   Can I Detect whether a node is *immediately* before the context node?

Hello, I am new :)

I have an XSLT query I could not find any solution to elsewhere. I need to
know if my context node is *immediately* proceeded by another node of a
certain type, in document order. So, ideally the test would return true for:

<foo></foo><context>I am here</context>

but not for:

<foo></foo>some character data<context>I am here</context>

Is this possible in XSLT or using a Saxon extension? Have I missed a very
simple solution? I would be extremely grateful for any advice!

Thanks,

Jamie McLaughlin


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