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Subject: Re: Desperate Questions: [1]Absolute-Child-Number
From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 15:15:41 -0500
At 03:17 PM 6/24/97 -0400, Paul Prescod wrote:
>> That's not what the spec says:
>> 
>>    "(element-number snl)
>
>Doh! Sorry. I coulda sworn that was what it did. Is this then what you want:
>
>(node-list-length (preced (parent node))) 

Almost:

(define (absolute-child-number %element%)
  (+ 1 (node-list-length (preced %element%)))

Now why didn't I think of this? I think partly because I wasn't sure what
preced returns--I know I considered it last night.

Thanks,

Eliot


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