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Re: position() misunderstanding

2003-02-13 12:23:46




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>

It's returning even numbers because you're forgetting about the whitespace
text nodes that are siblings of the book elements.  See the FAQ:

   http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N6099.html#d5877e70

Dave


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