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Re: XSL to generate required output

2005-12-12 07:51:06

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<xsl:variable name="poscurrent" select="position()"/>
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<xsl:copy-of select="following-sibling::Row[not(Cell='##')][position() &lt; 
poscurrent]"/>

I am not Michael, but...

You are here saying that you want the following siblings, that have a
position which is less than the position of the current one. This is
an expression that is always false.


Actually it says position less than the numeric value of the string
value of a child element called poscurrent which may or may not be
false, depending on that element.

But even if it said

<xsl:variable name="poscurrent" select="position()"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="following-sibling::Row[not(Cell='##')][position() &lt; 
$poscurrent]"/>

It wouldn't necessarily always be false (although it would probably
never be the required test). The current nodde list and the node list
selected by following-sibling::Row[not(Cell='##')] are certainly
different lists and so the meanings of position() in the two expressions
quoted are more or less unrelated, and comparing then may be either true
or false.

David

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