Re: context position incorrect

Steve,

I believe that it is working correctly. The positions reported are the positions in the parsed tree. That tree contains all the elements, not just the elements your XSLT rules specify to be outputted. So the 
positions are the positions relative to all the elements rather than just relative to the outputted elements. 

If you really seek to achieve what you expected then I think it is possible. See the third line I added below to your match on "item".

<xsl:template match="item">
	*<xsl:value-of select="@a"/>*
           <xsl:number count="."/>
	position = <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
	last = <xsl:value-of select="last()"/>
</xsl:template>

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:24:00 +1000, Steve Brown wrote:

>Hi,
>am having a problem with the position function and am hoping its my lack of
>knowledge rather than Xalan. The XSL below:
>
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>version="1.0">
>
><xsl:template match="list">
>	<xsl:apply-templates select="item[@include='yes']"/>
></xsl:template>
>
><xsl:template match="item">
>	*<xsl:value-of select="@a"/>*
>	position = <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
>	last = <xsl:value-of select="last()"/>
></xsl:template>
>
></xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>is run on this XML:
>
>
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><list>
>	<item a="1" include="yes"/>
>	<item a="2" include="no"/>
>	<item a="3" include="no"/>
>	<item a="4" include="no"/>
>	<item a="5" include="yes"/>
>	<item a="6" include="yes"/>
>	<item a="7" include="yes"/>
></list>
>
>to give:
>
>        *1*
>        position = 1
>        last = 4
>        *5*
>        position = 5
>        last = 4
>        *6*
>        position = 6
>        last = 4
>        *7*
>        position = 7
>        last = 4
>
>I thought it would give:
>
>        *1*
>        position = 1
>        last = 4
>        *5*
>        position = 2
>        last = 4
>        *6*
>        position = 3
>        last = 4
>        *7*
>        position = 4
>        last = 4
>
>Any ideas?
>Thanks,
>Steve.
>
>
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