At 2003-12-09 10:32 +0000, Paul Barclay wrote:
Given the XML.
<root>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
<child ..../>
</root>
what is the XSL expression to select the 3rd to the 8th child of root?
If your current node is the element <root> then the XPath expression is:
select="child[ position()>=3 and position()<=8 ]"
Any XPath expression can be in a predicate ... if the expression evaluates
to a boolean true, then the node being tested is considered still in play
... in the above example I have a boolean expression in the predicate based
on the current node list selected by addressing all of the elements named
<child> along the child:: axis.
Note there are no circumstances in which a naked less-than character is
allowed in an attribute, hence, I've escaped it above.
This happens to be one of the exercises in our hands-on material.
I hope this helps!
......................... Ken
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