Re: [xsl] Find the number of elements that are prior to the seriesof elements that match a string?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Find the number of elements that are prior to the seriesof elements that match a string?
From: "Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:33:12 -0000
On Tue, 2019-03-12 at 20:13 +0000, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
[...]
> fn:analyze-string($s, '..')/*/string()
> 
>  But it's not quite so attractive if the "fixed size" is dynamically
> defined rather than being known at compile time.

fn:analyze-string($s, concat('.{', $n, '}') )/*/string()
but i agree itbs not as pretty...


Liam


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