RE: Hello and quick question

I may have answered my own question by experimentation.

This xsl fragment seems to work: 

string(/ROOT/Client/Contacts/Contact[isReferrer='0']/ContactFirstName)

By only returning a string representation of the first node in this set.
Is this the "right" way to accomplish this or is there a better/more
preferred way?

Thanks again,

Corey Snow

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corey Snow 
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:54 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Hello and quick question
> 
> 
> Hi all- good to be back on the list; I got bounced from my 
> old job and haven't been in a position to collect a lot of 
> email in that time.
> 
> I have a quick question for you XSLT-guru types: How can I 
> obtain the first node of a set of nodes that meets a given 
> set of criteria? In my case, I have an XML document that 
> contains zero or more nodes in a particular element, like so:
> 
> <ROOT>
> <Client>
> ... Various elements here ...
> <Contacts>
> 
> <Contact ContactId='5'>
> ... Contact information ...
> <IsReferrer>1</IsReferrer>
> </Contact>
> 
> <Contact ContactId='10'>
> ... Contact information ...
> <IsReferrer>0</IsReferrer>
> </Contact>
> 
> <Contact ContactId='25'>
> ... Contact information ...
> <IsReferrer>1</IsReferrer>
> </Contact>
> 
> </Client>
> </ROOT>
> 
> I have no real control over the order of these elements, and 
> what I need to be able to do is obtain the first Contact 
> element which has zero
> ('0') in the IsReferrer element. Actually, I need to get the 
> value of a child element (ContactFirstName) of this element.
> 
> I can do something like: 
> /ROOT/Client/Contacts/Contact[IsReferrer='0']/ContactFirstName
>  but that returns a node-set, not a single node. I assume I 
> need to do something with the position() function, but I'm 
> not sure how to go about it.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any assistance,
> 
> Corey M. Snow, Delivery Consultant
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