[xsl] Re: Is it possible to know position of ancestor?

[evgeniy.strokin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Yes, you are so right (how do you know what I meant if I didn't know!?!? :)
But here is also the problem:
Let say we have another XML:
<root>
<some_tag/>
<line>
  <a/>
  <b/>
</line>
<line>
  <a/>
  <b/> - we are here
</line>
<root> 

In your example select="count(../preceding-sibing::* + 1)" we get 3 because 
it will count "some_tag" too. But we need to count only "line" elements.
How we can solve this problem? 

Jenya 


David Carlisle writes: 

> > We are in tag "b",
> note that xslt works on elements (element nodes) not tags, and importat
> distinction.  
>
> >  We want to find out what is position of our ancestor 
> > in their ancestor.
>
> I think you mean parent rather than ancestor: 
>
>  select="count(../preceding-sibing::* + 1)" 
>
>
> David


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