Re: [xsl] Subsets

[Robert C Corsaro <rcorsaro@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Abel Braaksma wrote:
> It is not possible to assign anything in XSLT. But you can get get a 
> subset in XSLT 2.0 with subsequence($items, $start, $lenght).
>
> There is no such thing as a subset of [2 ... -1], as -1 is not possible 
> position, they start at 1. And a range can only be positive, i.e.: (1 to 
> 3) instead of (3 to 1) (the latter which will result in an empty sequence).
thanks, it was just psuedo code :)  in some scripting languages -1 means 
last, that's what I meant.
> -- Abel
>
>
> Robert C Corsaro wrote:
> > Is there a simple way to get a subset of nodes.  I'm implementing a 
> > stack and want to pop the first node.  I'd like to get the subset of 
> > [2..-1] and assign it to the next recursion.