In each case there is exactly one node between the <movie> node and the root.
That is what you asked for, but I suspect that is not what you wanted. Do you
want to know how many <movie> nodes exist in the document prior to a given
<movie> node?
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Cynthia DeLaria <cdelaria(_at_)quris(_dot_)com>
Sent: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:19:26 -0700
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Subject: RE: [xsl] Finding position of a node relative to the root instead of
the parent node
Everything returns "1 down from the root" with this... Is there
something missing?
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From: cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com [mailto:cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:33 PM
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Subject: RE: [xsl] Finding position of a node relative to the root
instead of the parent node
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="nr/featured/movie">
<div><xsl:value-of select="@title" /> is <xsl:value-of
select="count(ancestor::*) -1" /> down from the root.</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="nr/also_new/movie">
<div><xsl:value-of select="@title" /> is <xsl:value-of
select="count(ancestor::*) -1" /> down from the root.</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Cynthia DeLaria <cdelaria(_at_)quris(_dot_)com>
Sent: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:12:27 -0700
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Cc: <btusdin(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Subject: [xsl] Finding position of a node relative to the root instead
of the parent node
Good Day,
I have searched the xsl list unsuccessfully for an answer to this
question, although I'm sure something like this has been addressed. I
think I'm just not sure what to search on to find it.
I have the following xml snippet:
<nr>
<featured>
<movie title="Charlie's Angles: Full
Throttle">Description</movie>
<movie title="28 Days Later">Description</movie>
<movie title="The Santa Clause 2">Description</movie>
</featured>
<also_new>
<movie title="Northfork" />
<movie title="Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story" />
<movie title="Russian Ark" />
</also_new>
</nr>
Basically, in the fully-flushed out version of the XML, the <featured>
movies have images and full descriptions, while the <also_new> movies
have only a title and rating. What I need to do is find a way to find
the position of each <movie> node relative to the root, as I need to
create a "print the new releases" page that lists all new releases in
two columns. This is what I tried, but it gives me the position based on
the parent (i.e. <also_new> or <featured>) not relative to the root.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1" /> <xsl:template
match="/nr"> <html> <head> <title>New Releases E-Newsletter</title>
<head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#023f7e"
alink="#ff0000" vlink="#023f7e"> Just print out this list.<br />
<table width="100%">
<xsl:variable name="thisMany"><xsl:value-of
select="(count(//*[name()='movie']) div 2)" /></xsl:variable>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="50%" class="body2">
<br />
<xsl:for-each select="//movie[position() < number($thisMany)]">
<b><i><xsl:value-of select="./@title" /></i></b><br />
</xsl:for-each>
<br />
</td>
<td valign="top" width="50%" class="body2">
<br />
<xsl:for-each select="//*[name()='movie'][position() >
number($thisMany)]">
<b><i><xsl:value-of select="./@title" /></i></b><br />
</xsl:for-each>
<br />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Is it possible to get the position relative to the root node? It seems
like this should be very simple, but all of the things I have tried have
not worked to produce the intended outcome.
Thank you!
Cynthia
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