Subject: RE: [xsl] position() From: DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:52:43 +0100 |
is there an echo on the list again? Either that or Peter and David ..... no, perhaps not ;-) Regards DaveP > <rant> > Yes, so it should. The decision to make it behave otherwise was > IMHO entirely bogus, I'm afraid. Especially in view of the fact > that SGML processing languages all implement their positional > function wrt the referenced element type in its location within > its parent, as one would expect. But it's not something that will > ever change. > > > I think the rant is misplaced. position() seems perfectly > natural to me. > what you are asking for sounds more like xsl:number. In any language > that has a list concept having access to the length of the > list (last()) > and position in the list seems quite common. That is what > position() does. > > You say position() should have been defined to give the > sibling element > position. So in > > <xsl:for-each select="section/title"> > section <xsl:value-of select="position()"> <xsl:value-of select="."> > </xsl:for-each> > > You think that it would be more natural for every section to be > labeled "1" as every title (in a document you'll just have to imagine) > is the first child of its parent? > > > Until someone can produce a function that behaves in a normal > manner (ie as above), it needs to be remembered (and FAQ'd?) > that position() means node-position(), not element-position(). > > That function is count(preceding-sibing::*)+1 > > I'm a little surprised that the newlines between TAGC and STAGO > are not counted as text nodes :-) > </rant> > > As I mentioned before, they are. > > ///Peter > > David > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star > Internet delivered > through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further > information visit > http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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