Re: A position question

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Subject: Re: A position question
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:12:41 -0500

At 12:56 PM 2/13/02, Eliot wrote:

> I would like to find the positions of the elemB elements with id="11". I can > get the next one by following-sibling::elemB[@id="11"], but I don't know how > to find it's position in the context node. Any suggestions?
Count the number of preceding siblings:
count(preceding-siblings::elemB[@id="11"])

Yes, this is exactly right, it avoids that problem with position() I described in that other thread.

If you want it to work on any elemB, say

count(preceding-sibling::elemB[@id=current()/@id])

Cheers,
Wendell

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