Re: [xsl] Positional tests

Hi Paul,

At 01:17 PM 3/2/2005, you wrote:

I need to find out if a block element that I process is the first one with
respect to its ancester S1, S2 or S3 elements. The hierarchy looks something
like this:

        <root>
          <S1>
            <block> <<
            <S2>
                <block> <<
                <block>
              <S3>
                <body>
                  <block> <<
                  <p>
                <block>
                </body>
                </S3>
            </S2>
          </S1>
        </root>

I have tried:

        test=". = ancestor::S3//block[1] or . = ancestor::S2//block[1] or .
= ancestor::S1//block[1]"

But this slows down processing enormously.

Yes, it'll be slow (it does some heavy-duty tree traversal) -- and it won't work, either. You can't test node identity with the "=" operator: it compares string values.

"not(preceding-sibling::block)" will return true if the current node has no preceding sibling blocks. Is your requirement different from this, and if so, how?

For example, when you have

<S3>
  <block/>
  <body>
    <block/>
  </body>
</S3>

both blocks here pass the test I offered. Should they? (The second is not "first with respect to its S3 ancestor".) Is your data constrained such that this isn't a problem?

Cheers,
Wendell


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