Re: Calling position() on a parent element

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 16:58, Oleg Tkachenko wrote:
> > 
> > Obviously, the "position(parent)" part is wrong (it just illustrates
> > what I'd like to do).
> 
> Try count(../preceding-sibling::*) to count number of preceding siblings of 
> the parent element.

Thanks -- it works a treat. :)

You've made my afternoon, especially when I realised I could do:

  count(../../preceding-sibling::*)

to go up another level (honestly -- it took real thought).

<scales fall from eyes/>

-- 
Graham Ashton


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