position() problem : The code

Thank you for your concern.
My previous post (indexing and string replacement : position() problem in
document()) contained the full code and didn't get any answer (a rather
terrible sight of code i must admit) so I chose to make it [too] short in
(position() problem)

Here is a lite version of code.

**mydoc.xml***
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<doc>
This is a test
</doc>

**mygloss.xml**
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<dic>
  <item>
        <mot>string</mot>
        <trans>chaine</trans></item>
  <item>
        <mot>tag</mot>
        <trans>balise</trans></item>
  <item>
        <mot>duplicate</mot>
        <trans>doublon</trans></item>
</dic>

**mystyle.xsl**
<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>


<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:call-template name="gloss"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="gloss">
count=<xsl:value-of select="count(document('mongloss.xml')//mot)"/>
1) test1=<xsl:value-of select="document('mongloss.xml')//mot[1]"/>
2) test //mot[2]=<xsl:value-of select="document('mongloss.xml')//mot[2]"/>
3) test //mot['2']=<xsl:value-of
select="document('mongloss.xml')//mot['2']"/>
4) test //mot[position() = (number(2))]=<xsl:value-of
select="document('mongloss.xml')//mot[position() = (number(2))]"/>
5) test dic/item/mot[position()=2]=<xsl:value-of
select="document('mongloss.xml')/dic/item/mot[position()=2]"/>
6) test //mot['3']=<xsl:value-of
select="document('mongloss.xml')//mot['3']"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

**OUTPUT**
(with Xalan-C_1_5-win32 and same with cocoon's xalan-j latest)

F:\eXist\webapp\cibapp\docs>xalan mondoc.xml monstyle6.xsl
xalan mondoc.xml monstyle6.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

count=3
1) test1=string
2) test //mot[2]=
3) test //mot['2']=string
4) test //mot[position() = (number(2))]=
5) test dic/item/mot[position()=2]=
6) test //mot['3']=string


Thanks again for your help, this is only the tester complex part of a code
taken from the indexing article of Dave Pawson, and from the Jeni Tennison's
answer on string replacement.
And really I don't understand why there is no answer and why '2' gives
"string" for this.

François
Relativity? no! it's all about *context* ;-)

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