xslt & xpath: match directly preceding comments

Question

I am attempting to apply an XSLT transformation to a batch of XML documents. The main point of the transform is to re-order several elements. I wish to preserve any comments tha

Answer 1

I think the best way of putting it would be as follows:

I want the preciding comments but only those with the current node as the first element to follow them.

Then, in xpath1.0/xslt1.0: