Re: [xsl] function last() not matching the last element tag

[Ross Buchanan <ross-buchanan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I was beginning to wonder if it was a problem with a version of 
something in xsltproc. The same undesired results occur with 
[position()=last()] and putting last() into a variable.
-Ross Buchanan

Abel Braaksma wrote:

> Ross Buchanan wrote:
>
> > I am running into a problem where I need to find the first paragraph 
> > element of a document and the last paragraph element to give a unique 
> > class to each. I am able to find the first paragraph with 
> > <xsl:template match="/doc/p[1]"> but am not able to match the last 
> > element with <xsl:template match="/doc/p[last()]">.
>
> Your code seems correct. I just run your sample input against your 
> XSLT stylesheet using Saxon 6.5.5 and it produced exactly your desired 
> result. This is perhaps a bug in libxslt. You may try as an 
> alternative [position() = last()] or put last() in a variable and use 
> that variable as predicate, which should produce the same results.
>
> -- Abel Braaksma