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RE: testing for following siblings
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 07:42:28 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] testing for following siblings
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> Another confusion ... I'm trying to determine when the
> current node has no following siblings. One expression that
> seems to work is:
>
> not(following-sibling::*)
>
> but the following expressions don't "work", and I thought they would
>
> following-sibling::* = ''
That will be true if there is a following-sibling and its string value
is "".
> following-sibling::* = '/..'
>
That will be true if there is a following sibling whose string value is
the same as the string value of a node in the node-set "/..". Since the
node-set "/.." is always empty, this will never be true.
Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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