Subject: Re: my nearest sibling From: "Oren Ben-Kiki" <oren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:04:48 +0200 |
Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Any volunteers to express "go up and get my nearest older sibling"? >In this example: > > <list type="gloss"><label><gi>front</gi></label><item>contains any > prefatory matter (headers, title page, prefaces, dedications, etc.) > found before the start of a text proper.</item> > >when processing <item>, I want to get my paws on the associated ><label>. > >Is this really trivial and I am being dense? should > > "../label[position()]" >work? actually, position() never seems to do what I expect. does it >produce the sibling count? No, it is the position in "the context node list" of the node matched by the pattern, not of the node matched by the <xsl:template> containing the pattern. You can work around this by using a variable: <xsl:variable name="position-before-me" expr="position() - 1"/> <xsl:??? select="../*[position() = $position-before-me]"/> But it is better to: <xsl:??? select="from-preceding-siblings(*[1])"/> See section 6.1.1 (Axes). Share & Enjoy, Oren Ben-Kiki XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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