RE: number continuation problem

Andrew, you are phrasing your questions so that only people with a very
good memory for previous questions in the thread are going to be able to
answer them.

Michael Kay

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Andrew Welch
> Sent: 30 June 2003 16:49
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  number continuation problem
> 
> 
> 
> Ok, is it possible in one xpath to do the following:
> 
>  <if>
>    <node/>
>  </if>
>  <elseif>
>    <node/>
>  </elseif>
>  <elseif>
>    <node/>
>  </elseif>
>  <if/>
>    ^^^
> 
> We are at the second <if>.  I need to get the max count of 
> <node>'s in the preceding if/elseif combination (which would 
> be 1).  I have the following xpath:
> 
> count(parent::if/preceding-sibling::if [count(step) >= 
> count(following-sibling::elseif[not(preceding-sibling::if[2])]
> /step)]/step) 
> 
> This however, counts both of the elseif/node's, so the 
> predicate evaluates to 1 >= 2, which fails.
> 
> Is there technique to get around this in xslt 1.0?
> 
> cheers
> andrew  
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