If the context node is C, then it has no preceding sibling TEXT1: the TEXT1
elements are "nephews" rather than siblings.

But I suppose this isn't really your input, as it's missing closing tags,
and I'm guessing that the answer to the question you intended to ask might
be preceding-sibling::TEXT1[1].

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaime Stuardo [mailto:jstuardo@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 20 April 2005 23:57
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  How to get the sibling node just before the 
> context node?
> 
> For example,
> 
> <A>
>   <TEXT1>
>   <TEXT2>
> </A>
> <B>
>   <TEXT1>
>   <TEXT2>
> </B>
> <C>
>   <TEXT1>
>   <TEXT2>
> </C>
> 
> 
> If context node is C, I want to get only B.
> 
> I tried using preceding-sibling::TEXT1 but I always get TEXT1 
> of node A, but I want to get it of node B.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Jaime