i have an xsl problem

below is part of my xml file

- <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
- <tr valign="top">
- <td align="left" class="grid">
  <b>22:35</b>
  <br />
  <a class="grid" href="javascript:dtl('1326097');">The National Lottery: Midweek Draws</a>
  <br />
  Ian Wright presents the midweek...
  </td>
  </tr>
  </table>
- <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
- <tr valign="top">
- <td align="left" class="grid">
  <b>22:45</b>
  <br />
  <a class="grid" href="javascript:dtl('1326112');">Car Wars</a>
  <br />
  In the first of a two-part investigation...
  </td>
  </tr>
  </table>

i need to use preceding-sibling:: to jump from the 2nd a class tag up to the first a class tag


this is the code so far how ever only shows the imidiate tag above
where am i going wrong

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="C:\cw2004\sample.xsl"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="h:a[contains(text(),'Car')]">
        #160;

        <xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::*"/>
        </xsl:template>
   <xsl:template match="text()"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

>i need to use preceding-sibling:: to jump from the 2nd a class tag up to the first a class tag

That's a bit like saying "I need to get from Berlin to Moscow by ferry". The two <a> elements aren't siblings, so you can't use preceding-sibling to get from one to the other.

Try

preceding::a[1], or

ancestor::table/preceding-sibling::table[1]//a



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Still no joy, bascally i need to navigate from one section to another, not sure how to do it