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Re: Immediacy of preceding-siblings
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- Subject: Re: Immediacy of preceding-siblings
- From: Warren Hedley <w dot hedley at auckland dot ac dot nz>
- Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 15:00:32 +1200
- Organization: The Departement of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland
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Matthew Bentley wrote:
>
> Does "preceding-sibling::*[1]" select the immediately preceding sibling, or
> would that be "preceding-sibling::*[last()]" ?
You want to have a look at section 2.4 of the XPath spec.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#predicates
Basically, the preceding-sibling axis is a reverse axis, and position() returns
the proximity of the node in the node-set with respect to the context node. So
preceding-sibling::*[1] should return the immediately preceding sibling.
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Warren Hedley
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