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Re: Xpath and for-each looping

Subject: Re: Xpath and for-each looping
From: Peter Flynn <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 17 May 2003 00:01:08 +0100
xpath looping
On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 21:21, Alan Gardner wrote:
> I've got a xml document (out.xml) that was generated from 3 other xml doc
> (using the copy-of element), and I'm mostly happy with the results. The goal
> is to loop through out.xml doc and display the last 5 title nodes (according
> to their respective date).  The unintended result is that it loops through 3
> times because of the three rdf:RDF tags that were pulled in when the xml
> page was generated.

Maybe use a template instead:

<xsl:template
match="document('out.xml')/descendant::title[count(following::title)&lt;5]">
    ...
</xsl:template>

///Peter



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