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Re: position() misunderstanding

2003-02-13 12:31:27
You forgetting about the text nodes.

try these templates and look at the output

<xsl:template match="/">
        <content>
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </content>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="Book" >
        <Book>
                [<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>]
        </Book>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="text()" >
        <text>
                [<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>]
        </text>
</xsl:template>

-rick

At 07:08 PM 2/13/03 +0000, you wrote:
I must be misunderstanding what a simple function like position() does. Can someone explain to me why the following returns all even numbers in the result? I would expect it to be {1][2][3] instead of [2][4][6]

=== test.xml ===
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Catalog>
        <Book>
                <Title>Dune</Title>
                <Authors>Frank Herbert</Authors>
        </Book>
        <Book>
                <Title>The Stars My Destination</Title>
                <Authors>Alfred Bester</Authors>
        </Book>
        <Book>
                <Title>SLAN</Title>
                <Authors>A. E. Van Vogt</Authors>
        </Book>
</Catalog>

=== test.xsl ===
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:template match="/">
        <content>
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </content>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Book" >
        <Book>
                <xsl:value-of select="Title"/>
                [<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>]
        </Book>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

=== testresults.xml ====
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<content>
        <Book>Dune
                [2]
        </Book>
        <Book>The Stars My Destination
                [4]
        </Book>
        <Book>SLAN
                [6]
        </Book>
</content>

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