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Re: position()

• From: Andrew n marshall <amarshal@z...>
• To: gauti@m...
• Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:46:05 -0700 (PDT)

I think the position() function is getting it value from teh globabl
position in the document, as in a depth first search of the
docuemnt tree.  Foreample:

1. itemlist
2. item (the first template match)
3. name
4. item (the second template match)
5. name

I don't know enough about XSLT to localize the context, but it looks like
the example under 7.7 of the spec does what you want (it uses a for-each
statemtent).


Anm


On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 gauti@m... wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Can't figure out why the following xml and xsl give the output below. 
> 
> XML:
> <itemlist>
> 	<item>
> 		<name>AAA</name>
> 	</item>
> 	<item>
> 		<name>BBB</name>
> 	</item>
> </itemlist>
> 
> XSL:
> 	<xsl:template match="item">
> 		<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
> 		<xsl:value-of select="name"/>
> 		<p/>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 
> OUT:
> 2AAA
> 4BBB
> 
> 
> Point of confusion: the position seems to start with 2 and going with an increment of 2. Is this supposed to be like this or is there a bug somewhere in my XSLT?
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks alot,
> 
> Gauti
> 
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