Subject: Re: [xsl] simple XPath question From: "Chris Nolte" <nolte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:57:26 -0700 |
Wendell Piez: > But a more robust match to do what you want would be > > <xsl:template match="country[not(preceding::country)]" > Mike Kay suggested something along the lines of: <xsl:template match='item[1]/country'> Thank you both, these XPath expressions produce the desired result. Your explanations (and Jeni's) were quite helpful. The nominal purpose of this example given in Fung's book (in which it fails, as far as I can tell) is to demonstrate template priority, and that <xsl:template match='country[1]'> has a higher priority than <xsl:template match='country'>. Accordingly, the solution Thomas Passin and Jeni Tennison posed of using <xsl:when test='position()=1'><first-country>...</first-country></xsl:when> ... inside a template matching 'country' is contrary to the purpose of the example, though it is certainly a viable approach. Chris XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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