generate-id() sounds very appealing. This sets an unique Id for the
element, that I can use to find the element again later... I'll investigate
that...
Thanks
Morten Andersen
At 10:58 24-10-2003 +0100, you wrote:
When position() returns 2,4,6,8 it is because you are processing the
whitespace text nodes between the elements, as well as the elements
themselves. Use xsl:strip-space to get rid of the whitespace nodes, or
use <xsl:apply-templates select="*"> to avoid processing them.
But you might find that generate-id() is a better solution to your
problem than position() - I can't tell from your description.
Michael Kay
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> Morten Andersen
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> Subject: [xsl] position() returns what?
>
>
> ksI want to iterate through a list of elements and bewteen
> these elements
> put a link that indicates where in the xml-document we are.
>
> For instance I want to transform:
>
> <page>
> <part name="title-1" text="This is the text"></part>
> <part name="title-2" text="This is the text of the second
> part"></part> </page>
>
> Into something like:
>
> <html><body>
> <a href="editPart.action?number=0">Edit</a>
> <h2>title-1</h2>
> This is the text
> ....
>
> My problem is how do I get the position / index of the part I'm
> transforming. I tryed with:
>
> <xsl:template match="part">
> <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
>
> But this outputs equal numbers: 2,4,6,8,10,...
> I did expect that it would output 0,1,2,3,4,5
>
> I'm sure this comes down to the fact that I lack some background
> information, but I have a hard time finding that. What I'm
> looking for is a
> JavaDoc alike information preferably with good examples.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Morten Andersen
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The Maersk Institute of Production technology at Southern Danish University
www.mip.sdu.dk
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