RE: [xsl] fixed position

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Meltem,

I think you'll find that Jim's latest is the neatest solution, and should 
work fine.

Note that his observation that your original problem is somewhat 
underspecified is also correct, so you may have to make allowances for that 
if your input data is not always exactly what you expect. (You could 
validate ahead of time to prevent this -- note that DTD validation won't do 
it, though XML-Schema might -- or even perform some exception-checking 
within your XSLT.)

Cheers,
Wendell

At 03:05 AM 8/2/01, you wrote:
> Thanks for the replies. I will try them all. I will give you an update later
> today on that.
>
> Meltem
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Melton [mailto:james.melton@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:57 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] fixed position
>
>
> Oops as always I have missed something. The first example does not work
> in every case. Instead try:
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <xsl:for-each select="data/item[text() != 'Solution']">
>         <xsl:value-of select="." />
>         <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
>         <xsl:if test="position() = 3">
>             <xsl:text>Solution </xsl:text>
>         </xsl:if>
>     </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>


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