[xsl] simulating for with foreach

["Mohsen Saboorian" <mohsens@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mike, Thanks David,
to clarify my request, suppose I don't have needed sequence of nodes
anywhere, and want to access every 4 elements: 1, 5, 9, ... to the
end. Do I have to use <xsl:if test="position() mod 4 = 1", or there is
a more flexible way?


On 7/5/06, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > but there are situations in which you can not use
> > position() because it doesn't give you the exact node (for example
> > when you have #text elements randomly beside <node>.
>
> If you only want to iterate over elements, just select elements not text
> nodes, then position() will give the position in the sequence of
> selected items.
>
> <xsl:for-each seelct="node[position() mod 2 =1]"
>
> does what you want, I think.
>
> David