Subject: Re: [xsl] A beautiful way to say: "give me the sequence after the first item"? From: "Alan Painter alan.painter@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 14:11:46 -0000 |
"Python" has nothing to do with "Beautiful". On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 2:17 PM Dave Pawson dave.pawson@xxxxxxxxx < xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Python has 'pythonic' methods / ways of writing. > > Has anyone come up with such a 'way' for XSLT? > > regards > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 at 13:11, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx > <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > 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: > > > > > > $tokens[position() gt 1] > > > > > > To my eyes, that is not beautiful code. > > > > > > Is there a beautiful (i.e., succinct) way to select all items after > the first item? > > > > > There is > > > > tail($tokens) > > > > in XPath 3 and > > > > subsequence($tokens, 2) > > > > in XPath 2 and later, I think. > > > > > > > -- > Dave Pawson > XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. > Docbook FAQ.
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