Re: [xsl] Position() Function Using Filter

[Vasu Chakkera <vasucv@xxxxxxxxx>]

>I am working with
> xslt 1.0
Why?? (just out of interest..)

On 28 October 2011 15:34, Lighton Phiri <lighton.phiri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> http://lightonphiri.org/
> @lightonphiri
>
>
>
>
> 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].
>
>



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