Re: [xsl] first of type element position

[Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sébastien,

> <xsl:if test="position()!=1"> doesn't work because, i think, the
> first element <TOC.SECT> is in position()=2. and <TI.TOC> in
> position()=1.

You can test whether the TOC.SECT has a preceding sibling TOC.SECT
element:

  <xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::TOC.SECT">
    <!-- not the first TOC.SECT element -->
    ...
  </xsl:if>

Or you could change the way that you apply templates to the elements,
so that the position() test would work. If you did:

<xsl:template match="RP.TOC">
  ...
  <xsl:apply-templates select="TI.TOC" />
  <xsl:apply-templates select="TOC.SECT" />
  ...
</xsl:template>

Then in the template matching the TOC.SECT elements, the set of nodes
to which you were applying templates would only contain TOC.SECT
elements, and the node in position 1 would be the first of those
TOC.SECT elements.

Cheers,

Jeni

---
Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/


 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list