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Can Xpath 1.0 print "position()" results?

• From: "Karr, David" <david.karr@w...>
• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:35:20 -0700

Not that I really need to know this, but someone asked this on StackOverflow, and now I gotta know. :)

Is it possible for a plain Xpath 1.0 query to return a "position()" value?  I know it can be used in predicates, but that simply results in the found element at that position.  I know I can return the "text()" result from an Xpath, but is it not possible to return the "position()" value?  If that's the case, I imagine there are other functions that might seem logical to get values from that won't work like this.

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