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Re: [xsl] xpath numbering question

2008-09-15 14:22:30
I feat I am wracking my brains again on something simple.

If my xml looks like this:

<A>
 <B1>
   <C1>
   <C2>
   <C3>
 <B2>
   <C4>
   <C5>
   <C6>
 <B3>
   <C7>
   <C8>
   <C9>
</A>

I am trying to access C nodes by position relative to root using xpath.

For example, to get C9, this does not work: //C[ position()=9 ]  //C[ 9 ]
presumably because the context to begin counting C nodes is the B node, and 
there are ony a maximum of 3 C nodes in that context.

Use:

/descendant::C[9]

or

(//C)[9]

read here for Wendell's and David's explanations to me the other day:

http://xsl.markmail.org/search/?q=%2Fdescendant#query:%2Fdescendant%20from%3A%22Andrew%20Welch%22%20order%3Adate-backward+page:1+mid:aiml76qzac2kzzzn+state:results



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