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Hi, > I am attempting to compare the values in one node with the preceding node. > When using the preceding-sibling on the first node, it retuns a > null (which is good), but thereafter returns the value of the first > node (only) as the tree is processed. Not completely sure, but the problem might be that: preceding-sibling::node() returns the first node on the preceding-sibling axis, but 'first' here being 'in document order'... (as in: take the set of all preceding-siblings and of that set, return the one that appears first in the source document) > If I use the axisName following:: or following-sibling:: then it works fine. Yes, because here the immediately following (sibling) node is always also first one following in the document as well. Try: self::node()[not(text()=preceding-sibling::node()[1]/text())] IIC, the addition of '[1]' should make sure you return the immediately preceding-sibling. HTH! Greetz, Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
