On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:40:15PM +0000, wrote:
> Unfortunately I'm still not getting anywhere.
>
> test="not($node/preceding-sibling::section)" does actually check all
> sibling elements before node right? ie. in:
>
> <chapter>
> <title>
> <chapterinfo>..</>
> <section> <-- if here
> <section>
>
> ..will check <title> and <chapterinfo> to return "true"?
I think the spec[0] has a revealing example for this:
* preceding-sibling::chapter[position()=1] selects the previous chapter
sibling of the context node
So I think your XPath expression checks to see if there are any
preceding section siblings, not /any/ siblings. I think you'd want
something like:
not($node/preceding-sibling::*)
But that's untested.
Good luck!
Take care,
John L. Clark
[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
