Re: A beautiful way to say: "give me the sequence afte

Python has 'pythonic' methods / ways of writing.

Has anyone come up with such a 'way' for XSLT?

regards

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 at 13:11, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
> Am 12/2/2022 um 2:09 PM schrieb Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I have a variable, $tokens, whose value is a sequence of items.
> >
> > I want to select all items after the first item. Here is one way to do it:
> >
> >       $tokens[position() gt 1]
> >
> > To my eyes, that is not beautiful code.
> >
> > Is there a beautiful (i.e., succinct) way to select all items after the first item?
> >
> There is
>
>    tail($tokens)
>
> in XPath 3 and
>
>    subsequence($tokens, 2)
>
> in XPath 2 and later, I think.
> 
>


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