*My earlier post got moderated by Hotmail as it did not consider XML
as legitimate text*
I am sure people made some sence of my mail but this is what I meant..
Calling node() is not the same as calling the Element itself
Node in Xpath means:
element, attribute, text, namespace, processing-instruction, comment,
and document (root) nodes.
This is the tricky bit you should be careful about when you are using
the position() function or calculating the following sibling etc..
Your logic will *Fail* if there are other elements , or text nodes etc..
the easiest way to explain your problem is to introduce another
element after your sixth EVENT , call it
*NEW-EVENT*
<xsl:value-of select="count(following-sibling::EVENT)"/> will call
ONLY EVENT nodes
<xsl:value-of select="count(following-sibling::node())"/> WILL CALL
even the NEW-EVENT nodes
This is easy identification of problem.
It gets tricky when there are invisible nodes like the text nodes.
<xsl:value-of select="count(following-sibling::EVENT)"/> will call
ONLY EVENT nodes
When
<xsl:value-of select="count(following-sibling::node())"/> WILL CALL
*ALL* the nodes including the invisible text nodes.
Its really not *invisible* text nodes for a pair of eyes seeing XML
for a long time. But it could be confusing!!
I think this is where you got confused.
HTH
Vasu Chakkera
Numerical Algorithms Group.
Oxford
www.vasucv.com
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