Re: conditional position()

On 4/21/05, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Been away wrapping up a book that I'm formatting with the XSLT code
> that I developed with much help from this list.  Alas, there's still
> work to be done there.
>
> How do I get this position() function to apply only to only certain nodes?
>
> Here's my expression:
>
> <xsl:when test="$contributor-role='primary' and position() = last()"/>

This is OK syntactically. Of course, position() has only meaning for
the context item in the current context  -- what is the current
context is not clear from the above one-line excerpt.


>
> I know why the above doesn't work, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Am
> using XSLT 2.0.

What does "doesn't work" means?

>
> The (global) contributor-role variable is:
>
> <xsl:variable name="primary-contributors" select="('author', 'editor',
> 'creator', 'reporter')"/>

Sorry, but this variable is named "primary-contributors", not
"contributor-role".

>
> Source example would be:
>
> <name type="personal">
>  <namePart type="given">Jane</namePart>
>  <namePart type="family">Doe</namePart>
>  <role>
>    <roleTerm>translator</roleTerm>
>  </role>
> </name>
> <name type="personal">
>  <namePart type="given">Jane</namePart>
>  <namePart type="family">Doe</namePart>
>  <role>
>    <roleTerm>author</roleTerm>
>  </role>
> </name>
> <name type="personal">
>  <namePart type="given">John</namePart>
>  <namePart type="family">Smith</namePart>
>  <role>
>    <roleTerm>translator</roleTerm>
>  </role>
> </name>
>
> The position of the second name element with the author role should be
> '1' and it should  be 'true' for last().  In other words, processing
> should completely ignore the name elements that contain roles other
> than those that are "primary."

Not clear. Could you, please, define more precisely?



Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.