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Jeff
Jeff

Reputation: 4003

xpath help -- preceding and following paragraph

I'm starting with just the xml:id of a given paragraph and I'm trying to get the xml:id of the preceding paragraph. Here's what I have so far. Right now, I'm getting all the xml:id's of the preceding paragraphs. But I only want the immediately preceding paragraph.

//p[following::p[@xml:id='d1l46adaacp']]/@xml:id

Please help.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 170

Answers (1)

Jeff
Jeff

Reputation: 4003

Here's the answer I discovered after my post.

Basically I was thinking about things backward. I was looking for any p that had a following p with the designated xml:id. I was not able to add [1] to the end because this was giving me any p that was first in its parent element.

What I have below works better. Now instead of trying to go straight to the preceding paragraph, I start at the paragraph whose xml:id I know, then I go to the preceding paragraph, stop at the first one [1], and ask for the xml:id.

//p[@xml:id='d1l46adaacp']/preceding::p[1]/@xml:id

Upvotes: 2

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