Re: Count previous-siblings w/same attribute value up

On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 16:54 -0800, Lou Argyres wrote:
[...]
> Is there an XPATH-2 select that can count preceding-siblings up to the
> first preceding @level = $lvl-1?
> 
>  <xsl:variable name="lvl" select="@level"/>

so, you could also say,
  <xsl:variable name="upto"
    select="preceding-sibling::section[@level eq $lvl - 1]" />

The preceding sections you don't want are then
   <xsl:variable name="not-these-ones-please"
    select="($upto | $upto/preceding-sibling::section)" />

and so you now want
    preceding-sibling::section except $not-these-ones-please
which is in fact an XPath 2 expression.

Any (negligible) performance penalty for using variables is
insignificant in most cases compared to the time taken for a human to
understand the resulting expression :-)

There are lots of other ways to solve this question, of course.

Liam

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