Re: using position() and last() with join

<cell><b>Lesson 1:</b> Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words
      <b>Lesson 2:</b> Word Origins
</cell>

You haven't shown us what $lessonFile is, but my guess is that it's a
singleton document node. If that's true, then position() and last() are both
1, so position()!=last() is false.

Did you want the newlines between the things copied by the xsl:copy- of,
perhaps?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Ofner [mailto:tofner@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 May 2008 17:03
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  using position() and last() with join

I am attempting to insert a return (
) after each element
but the last of a node set generated by a join. I am building
a table  in which one or more lesson names will be pulled
into the right-hand cell of each row. The join works fine.

Here is the part of the stylesheet in question:

  <xsl:for-each-group select="current-group()/SS"
group-by="."> <!--left-hand cell text selected from main xml
document-->
            <Cell aid:table="cell" aid:crows="1" aid:ccols="1"
aid:ccolwidth="342.5">
               <xsl:copy-of select="node()"/>
           </Cell>

<!--right-hand cell; nodes from $lessonFile-->
          <Cell aid:table="cell" aid:crows="1" aid:ccols="1"
aid:ccolwidth="197.">
               <xsl:variable name="skillNumber"
select="current-group ()/../@skill"/>
                   <xsl:for-each select="$lessonFile">

                     <xsl:copy-of
select="key('lessonName_by_num', $skillNumber)/child::node()" />

<!--the if statement below does nothing here or directly
above the copy-of line-->

                     <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
<xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text> </xsl:if>
          </xsl:for-each>
       </Cell>
              </xsl:for-each-group>

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


Terry Ofner