David B?rgin wrote:

In one template of my XSL stylesheet I'd like to match a text node with certain properties. Namely, the template should match for any text node where the nearest preceding non-empty text node is farther away than (= comes before) the nearest preceding <pb/> (page-break milestone element).

 <xsl:template
   match="text()[preceding::text()[1] >> preceding::pb[1]]">

I think you want << instead of >>:
 <xsl:template
   match="text()[preceding::text()[1] << preceding::pb[1]]">

	Martin Honnen
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