Re: Determine position in node sequence based on crite

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Subject: Re: Determine position in node sequence based on criteria
From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:28:32 +0100

Agreed. It seems like it would be real handy to have position() take
an argument:
position(../s[])

and return the position of the matching items...

The position of what item in what sequence?

or loosen the
restrictions on position() in a for expression, or have a different
function where you could get the position in a for expression:

for $i in ../s
  if (...) then $i/position() else ()

This all depends on maintaining more context, and we've arguably got too much context-sensitivity already, especially in XSLT.

It would be much cleaner with a higher-order function, which you can write in XSLT/XPath 2.1:

<xsl:function name="f:index-of" as="xs:integer*"> <xsl:param name="sequence" as="item()*"/> <xsl:param name="test" as="function(item()) as xs:boolean"/> <xs:sequence select="for $i in 1 to count(sequence) return $i[$test($seq[$i])]"/> </xsl:function>

then

f:index-of(../c, function($c){matches($c, $regex)})

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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Re: Determine position in node sequence based on criteria, (continued)
- Robby Pelssers - 30 Jun 2010 08:04:27 -0000
  - Lars Huttar - 30 Jun 2010 16:14:45 -0000
    - Michael Kay - 30 Jun 2010 16:43:26 -0000

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