How to use following-sibling

I have code like:

  <#list .node?children as opt>
      <#assign followingNode = following-sibling::opt/>

...

It does not like the "::"
I am obviously not using it correctly. Could someone please point out
where I am going wrong?

Thanks,

-Al

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