Re: [xsl] position() oddity?

[Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

Peter Flynn wrote:
> <headers>
>   <title>First</title>
>   <title>Second</title>
>   <title>Third</title>
>   <title>Fourth</title>
>   <title>Fifth</title>
> </headers>
> 
> what would you expect position() in template match "headers/title" to
> return? Currently it returns 2 4 6 8 10 using test.xsl (appended) when
> run through xt and cocoon. It's not quite what I expected (1 2 3 4 5 :-)

...

>   <xsl:template match="headers">
>     <tr>
>       <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     </tr>
>   </xsl:template>

xsl:apply-templates sets the current node list to all the child nodes of
the current node. You apparently thought that the only children were the
'title' elements.

% saxon foo.xml ascii-treeview.xsl 

root
  |___processing instruction target='cocoon-process' instruction='type="xslt"'
  |___processing instruction target='xml-stylesheet' instruction='href="test.xsl" type="text/xsl"'
  |___element 'headers'
        |___text '\n  '
        |___element 'title'
        |     |___text 'First'
        |___text '\n  '
        |___element 'title'
        |     |___text 'Second'
        |___text '\n  '
        |___element 'title'
        |     |___text 'Third'
        |___text '\n  '
        |___element 'title'
        |     |___text 'Fourth'
        |___text '\n  '
        |___element 'title'
        |     |___text 'Fifth'
        |___text '\n'

   - Mike
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