Re: [xsl] position() in templates

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Jian,

I'm afraid I didn't have time to dig into your code and figure out exactly 
what you need to do (partly since I'd have to guess exactly what you want 
to do!), but....

It seems to be that where you say:

><xsl:template match="*">
>  <xsl:variable name="last" select="substring(last-modified,1,8)"/>
>  <xsl:if 
> test="not(preceding-sibling::item[substring(last-modified,1,8)=$last])">
>   <tr><td>
>    jian<b><xsl:value-of 
> select="substring(last-modified,1,8)"/>@@@<xsl:value-of 
> select="last-modified"/></b>
>   </td></tr>
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="/items/item/last-modified" mode="a">
>     <xsl:with-param name="inner" select="$last"/>
>     <xsl:sort select="."/>
>   </xsl:apply-templates>
>  </xsl:if>
></xsl:template>

That xsl:apply-templates could be causing behavior such as you are 
complaining about. The template it appears inside of matches any element, 
but in practice (given the other templates' logic), only item elements. Yet 
for each (item) element matched, you apply templates to all last-modified 
elements in the document. Are you sure you don't want simply 
<xsl:apply-templates select="last-modified"/> to apply a template just to 
this item's last-modified?

If I'm not reading correctly and this doesn't put you on the right track, 
could you please post again with:

1. A simpler demonstration of the problem (strip your code and example down 
to the minimum that shows what's happening), and
2. A statement, preferably with example code, of exactly what output you want?

In that case it'd probably be easier for one of us to help you.

Good luck,
Wendell


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