Dave,
Hence I need to find out, roughly
whether the context-item() is 1,2,3,4 etc, in
the sequence of all loc elements with identical hl, side and pos
attributes.
I think that using the same method as you'd use in XSLT 1.0 would
work:
count(preceding::loc[(_at_)hl = $context/@hl and
@side = $context/@side and
@pos = $context/@pos]) + 1
variable name='set'
select='//loc[(_at_)hl=$context/@hl and @side=$context/@side and
@pos=$context/@pos]'
What's not working as I expect is index-of($set,context-item())
since (I guess) it uses typed value, not the node itself?
(Always returns 1)
That's right. The arguments to index-of() are atomised to atomic
values, so you're getting the index of the <loc> element with the same
typed value as the <loc> element you're looking at.
Of course there might be other, better, methods depending on how
you're processing the <loc> elements. For example, perhaps you could
use XSLT 2.0's grouping mechanism to process all the <loc> elements in
the group at once, and then just use position().
Cheers,
Jeni
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