Re: [xsl] get immediat preceeding node, if it is a comment

[David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>]

> Or, I suppose, you could include what weve been seeing on the other
> thread and use normalize-space() to bypass whitespace-only nodes:

beware though that node()[normalize-space()] doesn't just skip past
white space text nodes, it skips past any node with zero length string
value, so if you are on <a/> in

<x>
  <a/></b/></c><!-- hello-->
</x>

<xsl:if
test="preceding-sibling::node()[normalize-space()][1][self::comment()]">

is true.

David

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