Re: using step or following-sibling?

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Subject: Re: using step or following-sibling?
From: Geert Josten <Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:52:03 +0100

Bit late respons, but this riddle resurfaced in my mind, looking over the postings of the last few days (many as usual!)...

Though a good suggestion by Wendell (as usual) to use the way xsl:value works, there is something unsatisfactory about that solution. It still leaves the question: is there an alternative for position()?

The only answer I can come up with: count().

Unfortunatily, one will have to build a document fragment with the following-siblings and then get all childs which have count(preceding-siblings) equal to the position you are looking for. Not very elegant, nor very flexibel, and it will require the node-set function in XSLT 1...

Other suggestions?

;-)
Grt(z)

JBryant@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Isn't row[1] short for row[position()=1]? Since he's trying to avoid the position() function, isn't that a problem?

I'm curious: What issue do you have with the position function, Matt?
Jay Bryant
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Geert


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using step or following-sibling? Keller, Matt - 3 Dec 2004 21:55:18 -0000 Geert Josten - 3 Dec 2004 22:25:09 -0000 JBryant - 3 Dec 2004 22:30:20 -0000 Geert Josten - 6 Dec 2004 23:10:28 -0000 <= David Carlisle - 7 Dec 2004 10:17:09 -0000 Geert Josten - 7 Dec 2004 12:30:12 -0000 Message not available Wendell Piez - 3 Dec 2004 22:25:50 -0000

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