Re: [xsl] Saxon processing problem...

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote:
> > select="*/tbody/row[position() mod $grp-size=1].
> >
> > And this expression looks a little fishy since $grp-size=1 
> > will return a boolean value which is probably not a 
> > meaningful argument for "mod".
>
> Eliot's other comments are all valid but this one's wrong, I think. The
> "mod" operator has higher precedence than "=". Mind you, it would probably
> be worth writing it as 
>
> [(position() mod $grp-size) = 1]
>
> so that other people reading your code don't make the same mistake.

Thanks for pointing this out--I should have double checked the 
precedence rules.

Maybe it's because I always depend on parentheses that I don't really 
bother to learn the precedence rules for different languages....

Cheers,

Eliot
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