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Sequence of questions [was Re: Sibling text() Content Match]
David,
I think this is the code you're looking for.
<xsl:template match="REPLY-TO-POST">
<xsl:variable name="query">
<xsl:value-of select="CITED-QUESTION"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:when test="not(preceding::QUESTION[contains(., $query)])">
<xsl:message>Sorry, come again?</xsl:message>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:template>
We'll be able to use this as soon as Mulberry gets done testing the new
XML-aware, autotagging MetaMail engine, with the prescience support module
installed (coming real soon now).
Cheers,
Wendell
At 10:57 PM 5/4/00 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
>the trick to answering questions on mailing lists and giving apparently
>good response times is to predict the cycles of questions, so you know
>what's coming up, then you just need to send off answers to likely
>sounding questions at convenient moments, and hope someone fills
>the void and asks a question that is more or less answered by the
>answer that's already in the mail queue.
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