RE: Calling position() on a parent element

Try count(../preceding-sibling::*)

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of 
> Graham Ashton
> Sent: 08 May 2002 15:33
> To: xsl-list
> Subject:  Calling position() on a parent element
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I'm trying to convert this simple markup (which looks like HTML, but
> isn't):
> 
>   <tr>
>     <td>
>       <label>Hello World!</label>
>     </td>
>     <td>
>       <label>Foo</label>
>     </td>
>   </tr>
> 
> into something akin to this:
> 
>   <label>
>     <text>Hello World!</text>
>     <left_attach>0</left_attach>
>   </label>
>   <label>
>     <text>Foo</text>
>     <left_attach>1</left_attach>
>   </label>
> 
> The <left_attach> elements in the output tell the label or the button
> which table cell they should appear in. I'm having real 
> trouble getting
> hold of the values for <left_attach> from my source input, as I can't
> determine the position of the <td> element that a <label> belongs to,
> from the context of a <label>'s template.
> 
> This is close to what I'd like to be able to do:
> 
> <xsl:template match="td/label">
>   <label>
>     <text><xsl:value-of select="."/></text>
>     <left_attach><xsl:value-of 
> select="position(parent)"/></left_attach>
>   </label>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Obviously, the "position(parent)" part is wrong (it just illustrates
> what I'd like to do).
> 
> Is there a way for the template that handles <label> elements to
> determine the position of <td> elements, within the <tr>?
> 
> I'm using the latest libxslt. Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Graham Ashton
> 
> 
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