Alternatively: (I'm assuming answers is your context node)

option/@p[not(current()/option/@p > .)]

~ Scott

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From: George Cristian Bina [mailto:george@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 12:56 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Attribute of greatest value from a node set

Here it is one way:

/answers/option[not(@p < ../option/@p)][1]/@p

Best Regards,
George
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Steve wrote:
> The input typically won't be in the right order. Is there an Xpath 1
> alternative?
>
> -Steve
>
> On 9/28/07, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>  you don't say if teh input is known to be sorted, if it is (in xslt
1
>>  or 2)
>> /answers/option[last()]/@p
>> if the input is not known to be in the right order then (in xpath 2)
>> max(/answers/option/@p)
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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