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| Summary | Boolean True if the qualified element is not the first subelement and false otherwise. Replacing  | 
previous element-qualifier* (is | isnt) (element-name | element-name-list)
A test that succeeds if the qualified element is not the first sub-element of its parent, and if the previous sub-element has the specified element name. Otherwise, it fails (and returns false).
For example, the following "do...done" block uses a previous is test, and the actions within the block (not shown here) will only be executed if the current element follows a paragraph (par) element:
do when previous is par ... done
The previous is test ignores inclusions and data content.
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