using preceding-sibling with with xsl:sort

Question

I\'m trying to use preceding-sibling and following-sibling with a subset of records with a sort on them. The problem that the preceding / following brings back values from t

Answer 1

The preceding-sibling axis gets the preceding siblings of the context node in document order.

To refer to the preceding siblings of a node after sorting, you will need to store the sorted nodes in a variable first - and, in XSLT 1.0, convert the variable into a node-set.