position()

[Emmanuel Pietriga <emmanuel.pietriga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just noticed that in XT, position() behaves in this way:

if you have a source doc like this:

<A>
    <B>...</B>
    <C>...</C>
    <C>...</C>
</A>

then the xpath expression  "A/C[position()=2]"   selects the 3rd child
of A, not the second one.

It selects "the second occurence of C which is a child of A", not "the
second child of A with the condition that it is a C element".

Is this the correct behaviour?



The only way to select the second child of A is "A/*[position()=2]"
but in this case you can not be sure that it is a C element
(I mean, it requires an xsl:if test="name(*[position()=2])='C']"      )



Thanks.
Emmanuel



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