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Subject: Re: Position() Function Using Filter
From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:33:26 +0100
Re:  Position() Function Using Filter
On 28/10/2011 15:27, Murray McDonald wrote:
If you are sure that there will be one and only one "match" then the '[1]'
is unnecessary

index-of(//book, //book[ends-with(., 'ASTRO_00007.JPG')])[1]

But it's still useful to add the [1], because the poor old XSLT processor doesn't know there's only one, so if you tell it you only want one then it can stop looking when it has found it.


Michael Kay
Saxonica

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