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RE: position()
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] position()
- From: DPawson at rnib dot org dot uk
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:52:43 +0100
- Cc: xsl-list-owner at mulberrytech dot com
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is there an echo on the list again?
Either that or Peter and David ..... no, perhaps not ;-)
Regards DaveP
> <rant>
> Yes, so it should. The decision to make it behave otherwise was
> IMHO entirely bogus, I'm afraid. Especially in view of the fact
> that SGML processing languages all implement their positional
> function wrt the referenced element type in its location within
> its parent, as one would expect. But it's not something that will
> ever change.
>
>
> I think the rant is misplaced. position() seems perfectly
> natural to me.
> what you are asking for sounds more like xsl:number. In any language
> that has a list concept having access to the length of the
> list (last())
> and position in the list seems quite common. That is what
> position() does.
>
> You say position() should have been defined to give the
> sibling element
> position. So in
>
> <xsl:for-each select="section/title">
> section <xsl:value-of select="position()"> <xsl:value-of select=".">
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> You think that it would be more natural for every section to be
> labeled "1" as every title (in a document you'll just have to imagine)
> is the first child of its parent?
>
>
> Until someone can produce a function that behaves in a normal
> manner (ie as above), it needs to be remembered (and FAQ'd?)
> that position() means node-position(), not element-position().
>
> That function is count(preceding-sibing::*)+1
>
> I'm a little surprised that the newlines between TAGC and STAGO
> are not counted as text nodes :-)
> </rant>
>
> As I mentioned before, they are.
>
> ///Peter
>
> David
>
>
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