Is previous axes part of XSLT/XPath 2.0?   What if I
am stuck with XSLT/XPath 1.0 for now?

Thanks,
C


--- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   I have an xml file that could look something like
>   below.  Say I have a node called "servertype" that
>   could occur at any level.  In my XSLT, when I am
> on a
>   certain "servertype", I want to get find out
> exactly
>    where in the xml was the previous and next
> instance of
>   "servertype" node.  Key point is that "servertype"
>   could occur at any level with the XML structure so
> I
>   do not think preceding-sibling asex would work. 
> If I
>   use ancestor axes then it ignores any previous
>   instance of the "servertype" node at the same
> level.
> 
> If you want the previous use the previous:: axis
> rather than teh two you
> mentioned, ancestor:: or previous-sibling::
> Actually, depending on how you define previous, you
> may want to use
> 
> (previous::servertype|ancestor::servertype)[last()]
> 
> rather than
> 
> previous::servertype[1]
> 
> XPath doesn't consider ancestors to be previous
> nodes.
> 
> David
> 
>
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