Thank you Martin, this is exactly what I was hoping ;-)

> On 5 Apr 2018, at 18:45, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Also XPath now has a "path" function which returns an XPath expression with
positional predicates so perhaps you don't need to construct the name/position
pairs on your own if you have access to the latest XPath version.