hi,

is there a way to find out wether the node is first node and dont have any preceding-sibling

ex:

<Row>
<Data>
<value>5</value>
</Data>
<Data>
<value>3</value>
</Data>
</Row>

i want a way to find out that <Data> with value 5 doesnt have any preciding siblings or its first node.
Thanks

If you're processing all the Data nodes using for-each or apply-templates, you can test position()=1. Otherwise, you can test not(preceding-sibling::*)

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Michael Kay
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Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer\'s Reference

thanks for the reply , i did it using second way