Re: [xsl] A beautiful way to say: "give me the sequence after the first item"?

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 12/2/2022 um 2:09 PM schrieb Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have a variable, $tokens, whose value is a sequence of items.
>
> I want to select all items after the first item. Here is one way to do it:
>
> 	$tokens[position() gt 1]
>
> To my eyes, that is not beautiful code.
>
> Is there a beautiful (i.e., succinct) way to select all items after the
first item?
>
There is

B  tail($tokens)

in XPath 3 and

B  subsequence($tokens, 2)

in XPath 2 and later, I think.