Re: [xsl] limit count() to nodes with a position() < the postion of the current node

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> But I want to take this one step further and return the count of all nodes 
> that have a position()

Note that position() is not a property of the node, like name() it is a
function of the node and of the current node list that is being
processed. if you select  nodes with parent:: axis for example,
position() is always one.

<xsl:key name="linkCount" match="lid[position() &lt; 5]" use="."/>

That will index all lid elements that have less than four previous
sibling lid elements. Isn't that what you want?


> I expected it to return the count of the nodes that matched the current 
> context node as long as there postion was less than 5. 

It's hard to interpret this as a xsl:key itself doesn't return anything
and as I say above position() isn't a property of a node.

As xsl:key has to be top level the current context node is the root /
at that point.

David

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