Re: [xsl] targeting the 'first' instance of the same element in variable structures

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

On 02/07/2024 13:05, Jean-Paul Rehr rehrjb@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> At first Martin's solutionB  <xsl:template match="(div//head)[1]">
> looked like it would work. But then I started to test the various
> documentsB I have to work with, in particular at the most problematic.
> Below is an actual fragment, but I've put it in this Fiddle
>
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> As we can see it matched two items...it should only match the first.
> In bold below are what the template matched, in red bold what should
> be exclusively matched.


Is there some know root or parent container for the outer div like e.g.

 B  <xsl:template match="(/*/div//head)[1]">

?

Or can the outer div appear at any level/with any nesting and parent
container?