RE: Iteration without nodes

Thanks Colin.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Adams [mailto:colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 July 2006 15:53
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Iteration without nodes


>From: "Frank Daly" <Frank.Daly@xxxxxx>

>Hi
>
>I've successfully used the expression <xsl:for-each
>select="fieldcount[position() &lt; $lastNo]"> to perform a certain
>operation a number of times.  I'm not sure where I got it and can't
find
>information on why it works.  Now I'm doing a slightly different
>stylesheet and I can't get the desired result.  Could someone explain
>how this operation works.
>

Sounds like a horrible bodge to me.

What the code actually does is to iterate over the first ($lastNo - 1)
fieldcount children
of the context node.

If there happen to be at least ($lastNo - 1) of them, then is is
equivalent
to performing the body
of the for-each loop ($lastNo - 1) times. otherwise it is not.

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