Thanks; Ettiquette

Thanks David.

Now might be the time to ask: it takes
up a fair amount of list bandwidth 
posting my thanks.  Would anyone be 
offended if I just stuck with the thanks 
in advance, as so many don't post
e-mail address?

lee
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 4:05 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: First element of type, in same context
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    Is there an XPath that will allow me to 
>    output/flag the first occurance of an element
>    within a document, during a for-each loop?
> 
>    Thanks in advance,
>    Lee Goddard
> 
> If your for-each is selecting all the relevant nodes then you can just
> do test="position()=1" otherwise if the for-each is selecting a subset
> of the nodes and you just want to check that there is no 
> earlier node of
> this type then you can do
> test="not(preceding::xxx)"
> 
> But without more information its hard to say exactly what 
> construct you
> want.
> 
> David


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