Combining the use of preceding and following sibling in the same xpath query

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I have a quite simple problem but i can't seem to resolve it. Let's say i have the following code: ``` zyx wvu tsr qpo qcs ``` I want to select the nodes between the `b` node who has a `property="p1"` and the `b` node who has `property="p2"`. I can do either of those with the preceding-sibling and the following-sibling axis but I can't seem to find how to combine both.

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XPath 1.0: ``` /a/b[preceding-sibling::b/@property='p1' and following-sibling::b/@property='p2'] ``` XPath 2.0: The expression above has some quirks in XSLT 2.0, it is better to use the new and safer operators `<<` (before) and `>>` (after). ``` /a/b[../b[@property='p2'] << . and . >> ../b[@property='p1']] ```

Combining the use of preceding and following sibling in the same xpath query

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