Re: find position of first occurrence in a node set

Hi, James,

Did you change companies? I recall your e-mail used to be something else (or perhaps I mis-remember).

Anyway, you can use the xsl:number instruction to get what you want:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

 <xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:number select="transaction_set/segment[@type='HL']"/>
 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Just tested it with Saxon 8.4 and got 3.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)

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Subject
 find position of first occurrence in a node set

Greetings,

I have a node set that looks like this:

<transaction_set>

 <segment type='SL'>
   A
 </segment>

 <segment type='GS'>
   B
 </segment>

 <segment type='HL'>
   C
 </segment>

 <segment type='PR'>
   D
 </segment>

....

</transaction_set>


I need to find the position of the first <segment> element that has the type of 'HL'. So for my example above it should return 3.


Thanks you in advance,