Actually, now that I re-read the spec, I'm not certain what my point was.
(One of those days).
Okay, an axis has a primary node type, but, so what?
Hmm...
Does
preceding-sibling::node()
manage to find the PI?
-bob
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Mattias Reichel wrote:
> Hmm,
>
> Switching to preceding axis for clarity, but issue is the same.
>
> >From Michael Kay's XSLT Programmers Reference 2nd Edition by Wrox Press,
> page 364:
>
> preceding:
> This selects all the nodes that appear before the origin node, excluding
> the ancestors of the origin, in reverse document order. If the origin is
> an element node, this effectively means that it contains all the text
> nodes, element nodes, comments, and processing instructions in the
> document that finish before the start tag of the origin element. The
> preceding axis will never contain attribute or namespace nodes.
>
> Is he dead wrong here or what?
>
> /Mattias
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:jaxen-interest-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of bob mcwhirter
> > Sent: den 18 april 2002 15:47
> > To: Mattias Reichel
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Jaxen] Possible bug with processing instructions
> >
> >
> > XPath spec, 2.3:
> >
> > Every axis has a principal node type. If an axis can contain elements,
> > then the principal node type is element; otherwise, it is the type of
> > the nodes that the axis can contain. Thus,
> >
> > * For the attribute axis, the principal node type is attribute.
> > * For the namespace axis, the principal node type is namespace.
> > * For other axes, the principal node type is element.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > So, preceding-sibling::* will select the preceding sibling of the
> > type 'element', as I read it.
> >
> > Am I misinterpreting the spec?
> >
> > -bob
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Mattias Reichel wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm using dom4j and of course also jaxen for some xml processing.
> Got
> > > into trouble when trying to get a hold of a processing instruction
> via
> > > an xpath expression.
> > >
> > > Example:
> > > <a>
> > > <b/>
> > > <?toc order-by="x"?>
> > > <c/>
> > > </a>
> > >
> > > c.selectSingleNode("preceding-sibling::*[1]");
> > > returns b.
> > >
> > > Best Regards
> > > Mattias Reichel
> > >
> > >
> > >
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