Re: Accessing nth element

I am sorry correction: I am not using for-each but I am using templates.
Should I switch to for-each with a selection to achieve what I am doing..

Thanks
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Am Dienstag,  1. Mai 2001 15:04 schrieb
Bharat.Chintapally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> Hello all:
>      I think I need to replace for-each in my XSLT's with recursion. I am
> interested in picking 'x' elements from 'y' (20 for each page from 500
> records) for paging. for-each is working fine, but it is overkill, I
should
> be able to terminate (return from as in procedural lang's) processing
when
> I finish processing 20 records for a given page.
>      I am trying to switch to recursion, but have a quick question. Is
> there a way to fetch an n'th element from given bunch of records. For
> example when I am processing records 20 thru records 40 out of 500
records,
> I would like directly fetch the record #20 from all the records. Is it
> possible..

try something like this

<xsl:for-each select="./records[position() < 20]">

not tested, but with position function inside your XPath expression you
should get the records you want.

janning

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