Yes. Another solution is to use

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

to remove the whitespace text nodes.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Fitzsimons [mailto:nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 15 August 2005 11:21
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  problems with position() and following-sibling
> 
> 
> > But that isn't reflecting my real problem. If I walk 
> through the a set
> > of Cell nodes, position() returnes a doubled value, 
> starting with 2 and
> > ending with 14. I will post that in an extra thread.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Georges
> >
> 
> It sounds like you've been caught by something that bit me recently.
> What's probably happening is that your
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates />
> 
> is matching all nodes, _including_ whitespace text nodes between the
> elements; thus you get:
> 
> 1. whitespace
> 2. Cell
> 3. whitespace
> 4. Cell
> 
> ...and so on. If you use
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="Cell" />
> 
> you should get the correct value for position().
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Nick.
> -- 
> Nick Fitzsimons
> http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/