Re: [xsl] Selecting specific portions of a tree.

[Paul Barclay <paul.barclay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks very much, that was perfect and a lot better response than that
other person Emmanuil Dalsis.

Thanks!
Paul





On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 11:15, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> At 2003-12-09 10:32 +0000, Paul Barclay wrote:
> >Given the XML.
> >
> ><root>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> >         <child ..../>
> ></root>
> >
> >what is the XSL expression to select the 3rd to the 8th child of root?
> 
> If your current node is the element <root> then the XPath expression is:
> 
>     select="child[ position()>=3 and position()&lt;=8 ]"
> 
> Any XPath expression can be in a predicate ... if the expression evaluates 
> to a boolean true, then the node being tested is considered still in play 
> ... in the above example I have a boolean expression in the predicate based 
> on the current node list selected by addressing all of the elements named 
> <child> along the child:: axis.
> 
> Note there are no circumstances in which a naked less-than character is 
> allowed in an attribute, hence, I've escaped it above.
> 
> This happens to be one of the exercises in our hands-on material.
> 
> I hope this helps!
> 
> ......................... Ken
> 
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