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Re: position of non actual element
- From: Oliver Becker <obecker at informatik dot hu-berlin dot de>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:30:25 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: [xsl] position of non actual element
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Hi Rudolf,
> I'm having problem with position().
> I need position of node which is not tested now, eg.
> <data>
> <value attr="first">...</value>
> <value attr="second">...</value>
> </data>
>
> <!--xsl:value-of select="position(data/value[@attr = 'second'])"/-->
> of course this cannot run :-))
position() returns always the position of the current node within the
context node list. There's nothing like a "global position".
For example: if you have
<xsl:template match="value[@attr='second']">
<xsl:value-of select="position()" />
</xsl:template>
you might think to get always the same value.
No, that's not the case. position depends, as I said, on the context
node list. I.e.
<xsl:apply-templates select="//*" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="/data/value" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="/data/value[@attr='second']" />
gives three different numbers.
So, what do you mean by "position"?
The position of the value element among its value siblings?
Then just count the preceding siblings and add 1:
<xsl:value-of
select="count(data/value[@attr='second']/preceding-sibling::value)+1" />
Or alternatively you could use the power of <xsl:number />:
<xsl:for-each select="data/value[@attr='second']">
<!-- this only changes the context node -->
<xsl:number />
</xsl:for-each>
Cheers,
Oliver
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