Re: simple XPath question

I got the same result as you with both Saxon and msxml3.  Here's a way I
like, but it gives a slightly different output from what you suggest:

<xsl:template match='country'>
<xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when test='position()=1'>
       <first-country>
             <xsl:value-of select='.'/>
        </first-country>
     </xsl:when>
     <xsl:otherwise>
          <xsl:copy-of select='.'/>
     </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

The result:

<storage>
<first-country>US</first-country>
<country>Canada</country>
</storage>

I've hit this behavior of xxx[1] once before, if I remember.  Mike K or
someone will have to lay out for us precisely what xxx[1] is supposed to
mean in this context, I never ran it down.

Cheers,

Tom P

[Chris Nolte]

> I am trying to work through an example in Khun Yee Fung's XSLT book.  It
is
> not giving me the solution he claims it should, but I do not understand
why
> not.
>
> Here is the sample XML:
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <warehouse>
>   <item>
>     <name>orange</name>
>     <country>US</country>
>   </item>
>   <item>
>     <name>ice wine</name>
>     <country>Canada</country>
>   </item>
> </warehouse>
>
> And here is the stylesheet:
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version='1.0'
>   xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>
>   <xsl:output method='xml' indent='yes'/>
>
> <xsl:template match='/'>
>   <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match='warehouse'>
>   <storage>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select='item/country'/>
>   </storage>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match='country'>
>   <xsl:copy-of select='.'/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match='country[1]'>
>   <first-country>
>     <xsl:copy-of select='.'/>
>   </first-country>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> The output I am getting [using Saxon] is:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <storage>
>    <first-country>
>       <country>US</country>
>    </first-country>
>    <first-country>
>       <country>Canada</country>
>    </first-country>
> </storage>
>
> i.e., the first-country template is getting matched both times, even
though
> the XPath expression uses country[1].  What seems strange to me is that
when
> I include the line <xsl:copy-of select='position()'/> at the beginning of
> the template matching country[1], I get a 1 and a 2.
>
> I believe I am supposed to get:
> <storage>
> <first-country>
>   <country>US</country>
> </first-country>
> <country>Canada</country>
> </storage>
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or is the example in Fung's book (Chapter 6,
p.
> 149) wrong?  How should the stylesheet be structured to get the intended
> output?



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