Hi Charles,
At 07:33 PM 3/22/2005, you wrote:
Hello,
I need to extract the first 5 children from an element.
I used the following syntax and I have problems with it.
<xsl:for-each select="/root/element[position()<4]">
...
</xsl:for-each>
Do I need to escape the condition ( position()<4 ).
Well yes, if this XPath is to be used in XSLT (which it is). For XSLT to
parse it must be well-formed XML, which includes escaping magic characters
in attribute values.
But there's also a difference between the first five elements, and the
first five elements of a given type ('element' elements, for example): you
might want simply
/*/*[position() <= 5]
to get the first five children of the document element, whatever their
names are.
Cheers,
Wendell
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