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> A call to position() is allowed, but always returns 1. This is because > position() returns the value of context position in the dynamic context, > which is defined in XSD 1.1 section 3.13.4.2 to take the value 1. > > I'm afraid it's a common misunderstanding that position() is somehow related > to the number of preceding siblings that a node has. :) count(.|preceding-sibling::*) instead then...? The common misunderstanding likely comes from the default processing inbuilt into XSLT, where position() will return a child's position amongst its siblings. It could maybe be split into 3 functions: position() - the position of the node amongst the selected nodes to process, as it is now sibling-position() - the position of the node amongst its siblings document-position() - the position of the node within the document That would prevent any confusion... -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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