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Re: Determine position in node sequence based on crite

Subject: Re: Determine position in node sequence based on criteria
From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:24:10 +0100
Re:  Determine position in node sequence based on crite
> ../s[matches(@c, '^[ab]$') and matches(., $re)]/position()
>
> obviously wrong since it will always return 1, given the above XML, e.g., I need the position() in ../s not the position() of the resulting nodeset from the match criteria.

It sounds like instead of

/position()

you want

/preceding-sibling::s

wrapped in a count(1 + .....)


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Andrew Welch
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