Re: [xsl] max value

["Charly" <cohana at investacorp dot com>]

Thanks Mike,
You were right I was working with a Beta version of XSLT processor .

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Brown" <mike@skew.org>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] max value


> Charly wrote:
> > Thanks Mark,
> > I still have a problem with the last(), after I do the sort the last
doesn't
> > give the last position anymore .
>
> position() and last() should be giving you the info relative to the
> sorted set. In the example you're going with, the last node should be
> the one with the max value. If it is not, then your XSLT processor is
> in violation of http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#sorting which says
>
>   "When a template is instantiated by xsl:apply-templates and
>   xsl:for-each, the current node list list consists of the complete
>   list of nodes being processed in sorted order."
>
> ...and http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Expressions explains that the
> current node list determines the context as used by the XPath functions
> such as last().
>
>    - Mike
>
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