Re: (dsssl) Making a special treatment for the *first* occurrence of an element

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:43:12PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> I'm trying to process a list of elements (DocBook's <othercredit> if
> you want to know) with a special treatment for the first element of
> the list (literal "I would like to thank also: ").
> 
> In a procedural language like TeX, I would create a counter and
> increment it at each step. The first element is the one where the
> counter is still zero.
> 
> In XSL, I would use Xpath. The first element is the one where <xsl:if
> test="not(preceding::othercredit)"> yields true.
> 
> How to do it with DSSSL?

Maybe you can check whether element-number is 1, or if applicable if
first-sibling? or absolute-first-sibling? returns #t ?

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