Re: Tricky problem, limiting the number of source elements p

Dylan,

> Lets say you have two types of elements, "typeA" and "typeB" that you want
> to display, but you only want to display a maximum number of them, say five.
> More particularly, you want to display as many of typeA as possible, up to
> the limit of five, but if there are less than five typeAs, the remaining
> space should be filled with typeBs.

If you can ensure that typeAs always precede typeBs, then

  select="*[self::typeA or self::typeB][position() <= 5]"

would probably do the trick; otherwise you will need two separate selects:

  select = "typeA[position() <= 5]"
  select = "typeB[position() <= (5 - count(typeA))]"

Best regards,
Nikolai




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