Hi,
I have some XML file, for example:
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<menu>
<menuitem title="1"/>
<menuitem title="2">
<menuitem title="2.1"/>
</menuitem>
<menuitem title="3">
<menuitem title="3.1"/>
<menuitem title="3.2"/>
<menuitem title="3.3"/>
<menuitem title="3.4">
<menuitem title="3.4.1"/>
<menuitem title="3.4.2"/>
</menuitem>
<menuitem title="3.5"/>
<menuitem title="3.6">
<menuitem title="3.6.1"/>
<menuitem title="3.6.2"/>
</menuitem>
</menuitem>
</menu>
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and XLS transform:
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<xsl:template match="menu">
<table class="menu">
<tr><td><xsl:value-of select="count(ancestor::*)"/></td><td> </td></tr>
<xsl:for-each select="child::menuitem">
<tr><td><xsl:value-of select="count(.//ancestor::*)"/></td><td>
<xsl:value-of select="@title"/></td></tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</xsl:template>
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In result the following:
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1 - root element
2 1 - root, menu
3 2 - root, menu, menuitem "2"
5 3 - root, menu, menuitem "3", menuitem "3.4" and what???
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http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116 :
* the ancestor axis contains the ancestors of the context node;
the ancestors of the context node consist of the parent of context
node and the parent's parent and so on;..
* Function: number count(node-set)
The count function returns the number of nodes in the argument node-set.
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Why the result is 5? It should be equal 4, or not?
PS. I use Perl-5.8.5 + LibXML + LibXSLT..
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Best regards,
Andrey V. Elsukov