Subject: RE: [xsl] for-each select="position()" From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 00:27:29 -0000 |
> The following appears to work with the latest Saxon in an > XSLT v2 style sheet. > <xsl:for-each select="position()"> > > My take on this is that position() returns a number and that > number is then used in a sequence of one. Am I understanding > this correctly and should this be how all XSLT v2 processors behave? Yes. It doesn't seem a very useful construct, but that's what it does. I can imagine a use for <xsl:for-each select="position()-1, position(), position()+1"> But wherever you can use a sequence of several numbers, you can also use a sequence containing a single number. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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