Wow, dunce hat of the day to me for not even realizing that nested [] are
valid. This opens up some new possibilities. Thanks a lot for all of your
prompt answers!


-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Honnen [mailto:Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx]
Sent: den 15 april 2011 15:54
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Whitelist preceding siblings

Fredrik Bengtsson wrote:

> I've tried something like the following with no luck:
>
> <xsl:template match="x">  ...
> <xsl:template match="x[preceding-sibling::*][not(self::a or self::b or
self::c)]">  ...

   <xsl:template match="x[preceding-sibling::*[not(self::a or self::b or
self::c)]]">
should match any "x" elements having one of the "unwanted" siblings.


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