"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> tshad wrote:
>> Here is part of my xml:
>>
>>       <FORMPHOTOS>
>>         <PHOTO NUM="1">
>>           <FILENAME>09May001.jpg</FILENAME>
>>           <FILETYPE>JPEG</FILETYPE>
>>         </PHOTO>
>>         <PHOTO NUM="2">
>>           <FILENAME>09005.jpg</FILENAME>
>>           <FILETYPE>JPEG</FILETYPE>
>>         </PHOTO>
>>         <PHOTO NUM="3">
>>           <FILENAME>09002.jpg</FILENAME>
>>           <FILETYPE>JPEG</FILETYPE>
>>         </PHOTO>
>>       </FORMPHOTOS>
>>
>> In my xsl sheet I am doing:
>>
>>  <xsl:template match="FORMPHOTOS/PHOTO">
>
>>       <xsl:value-of select="../PHOTO/@NUM"/>
>
>
>> In my source tag I am actually doing a little more but I am trying to get 
>> the value of @NUM from the immediately preceding node.
>
>         <xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::PHOTO[1]/@NUM"/>

Almost worked, but not quite.

It seems to go back 2.

The results I got for my xml were:

09May001.jpg    ->    blank
09005.jpg          ->   1
09002.jpg         ->   2

I got the same result if I did:

         <xsl:value-of select="preceding::PHOTO[1]/@NUM"/>

Not sure what the difference is.

If I changed [1] to [0], I get blank for all three.  I thought maybe it was 
zero based.

Thanks,

Tom


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