Re: finding postion from value of attribute

Lainaus David Elsmore <delsmore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

<!-- Hi,
<!-- 
<!-- I have the following xml input and would like to identify the position 
<!-- of the <answer/> element with the 'correct' attribute within the 
<!-- <question/> context and output it as as an integer ( in this case 3).
<!-- 
<!-- <question>
<!--     <answer/>
<!--     <answer/>
<!--     <answer eval="correct">
<!--     <answer/>
<!-- </question>
<!-- 
<!-- Any suggestions much appreciated

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 
<xsl:template match="/question">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="answer"/>
</xsl:template>
 
<xsl:template match="answer[@eval='correct']">
   <xsl:value-of select="./@eval"/> answer is number:
  <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
</xsl:template>
 
</xsl:stylesheet>


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