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RE: get immediat preceeding node, if it is a comment
- From: "Andrew Welch" <awelch at piper-group dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:01:19 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] get immediat preceeding node, if it is a comment
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> - how to get the immediat preceeding node, when you don't
> know what it will
> be (element, comments, and for extension PIs, text())
preceding-sibling::node()[1]
> - how can I filter comments from it
<xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::node()[1][self::comment()]">
....
</xsl:if>
Don't forget though that most likely the immediate preceding element
will be some presentational whitespace, so you will need to strip that
out using:
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
or a more specific selection in place of * (unless of course, you are
using msxml which strips it all out regardless).
cheers
andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Terray [mailto:terray@4dconcept.fr]
> Sent: 04 October 2002 10:23
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] get immediat preceeding node, if it is a comment
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a little problem, which I am unable to find the
> solution because I
> must think to devious...
>
> I have a XML with some comments on the nodes, just before,
> that I want to get.
>
> My problem is : there are not always there, so I cannot just use
> "preceding-sibling::comment()[1]".
>
> Therefore, 2 questions :
> - how to get the immediat preceeding node, when you don't
> know what it will
> be (element, comments, and for extension PIs, text())
> - how can I filter comments from it
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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