John Cavalieri wrote:
The following appears to work with the latest Saxon in an XSLT v2
style sheet.
<xsl:for-each select="position()">
My take on this is that position() returns a number and that number is
then used in a sequence of one. Am I understanding this correctly and
should this be how all XSLT v2 processors behave?
I am not 100%, but I think that position() returns a sequence of (1 or
more) integers indicating the position of the element. For instance:
<xsl:for-each select="//position()">
number: <xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:for-each>
will output all descendent-or-self element positions. And this:
<xsl:for-each select="position()">
will return the sequence of positions of the context node, always
consisting of one item of xs:integer. Note, however, that it resembles,
but is not the same, as:
<xsl:for-each select="self::node()/position()">
or
<xsl:for-each select="current()/position()">
which will both return 1, always.
-- Abel
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