position() returns what?

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Subject: position() returns what?
From: Morten Andersen <mortena@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:37:45 +0200

ksI want to iterate through a list of elements and bewteen these elements put a link that indicates where in the xml-document we are.

For instance I want to transform:

<page>
  <part name="title-1" text="This is the text"></part>
  <part name="title-2" text="This is the text of the second part"></part>
</page>

Into something like:

<html><body>
<a href="editPart.action?number=0">Edit</a>
<h2>title-1</h2>
This is the text
....

My problem is how do I get the position / index of the part I'm transforming. I tryed with:

<xsl:template match="part">
    <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>

But this outputs equal numbers: 2,4,6,8,10,...
I did expect that it would output 0,1,2,3,4,5

I'm sure this comes down to the fact that I lack some background information, but I have a hard time finding that. What I'm looking for is a JavaDoc alike information preferably with good examples.

Thanks


Morten Andersen
Master of applied mathematics and computer science
Amanuensis (in e-learning)

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position() returns what? Morten Andersen - Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:37:53 -0400 (EDT) <= David Carlisle - Fri, 24 Oct 2003 05:07:05 -0400 (EDT) David Elsmore - Fri, 24 Oct 2003 05:26:10 -0400 (EDT) Michael Kay - Fri, 24 Oct 2003 05:57:22 -0400 (EDT) Morten Andersen - Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:44:50 -0400 (EDT)

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