Re: [xsl] Position() Function Using Filter

[Lighton Phiri <lighton.phiri@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all the the valuable feedback. The count approach suggested by
Andrew& Brandon did the trick :) --count(preceding-sibling::*)
Awesome!

just so you know, I forgot an important detail --I am working with
xslt 1.0 and so "index-of and " and the book[tokenize(., '/')[last()]
eq $bpage] hint wont work.

Lighton Phiri
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On 28 October 2011 21:01, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex
<gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 2011-10-28 20:17, Liam R E Quin wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 10:27 -0400, Murray McDonald wrote:
>>>
>>> If you are sure that there will be one and only one "match" then the
>>> '[1]'
>>> is unnecessary
>>>
>>> index-of(//book, //book[ends-with(., 'ASTRO_00007.JPG')])[1]
>>
>> On the other hand, the difference between /a/b/c[1] and (/a/b/c)[1] is a
>> major source of confusion for the newcomer and the "perpetual
>> intermediate" [1] alike.
>
> Thanks for confusing the perpetual intermediate with a [1] that looks like
a
> positional predicate but that actually is a citation link. Pun intended?
>
>>
>> Sometimes you have to make the computer work a little harder if it means
>> getting the right answer more often.
>
> Agree [+1].