RE: Can I access the children by their Index?

I fixed this in the end by using

<xsl:value-of
select="ANNUALSNAPSHOT[3]/CONSENSUSVALUE/ESTIMATEDATA/child::*[position()=$I
ndex]" />

Now I know might not be pretty, but it DOES return what I want. $Index will
range from 1 to 9

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Francis
Norton
Sent: 27 February 2001 16:22
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Can I access the children by their Index?


something like this should do it... you don't have to know the name of
an element or an attribute to process it :)

Francis.

<xsl:template match="ESTIMATEDATA">
  <table>
  <xsl:for-each select="*">
  <!--
    select="*" is shorthand for select="child::*",
    in other words all child elements
  -->
    <tr>
      <td><xsl:value-of select="local-name()"/></td>

      <xsl:for-each select="@*">
      <!--
        select="@*" is shorthand for select="attribute::*",
        in other words all attributes
      -->
        <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
      </xsl:for-each>
      <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
    </tr>
  </xsl:for-each>
  </table>
</xsl:template>

Daniel Newman wrote:
>
> sorry all, thought my original request might confuse. Time for more
> illustration. My XML (the part we're interested in anyway) looks like
this:
>
>  <ESTIMATEDATA>
>   <SALES name="Sales" grade="none">***.*</SALES>
>   <PROFIT name="Profit" grade="none">**.*</PROFIT>
>   <EPS name="EPS" grade="none">**.*</EPS>
>   <CFPS name="CFPS" grade="none" />
>   <DPS name="DPS" grade="none">**.**</DPS>
>   <PE name="P/E Ratio" grade="none">**.*</PE>
>   <DIVCOVER name="Div Cover" grade="none">*.*</DIVCOVER>
>   <DIVYIELD name="Yield" grade="none">*.*</DIVYIELD>
>   <PEG name="PEG Factor" grade="none" />
>  </ESTIMATEDATA>
>
> Now I want to set up a function that will loop 9 times, and then retrieve
> the value of that child node. I don't want to refer to each child by their
> name, as this would mean getting rid of the loop and having nine table
rows.
> There must be a way of accessing CFPS without calling it by name. So
again,
> can I get the value of CFPS by doing something like:
>
> xsl:value-of select="../../../ESTIMATEDATE/child(4)/@name"
>

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