In my style sheet I make a selection of the elements and pass that to a
template. In that template I can reference this sequence as $seq.
Selecting from $seq appears to be not that easy, because I can't use axes.
Axes have a document scope whereas I want to do something within the
sequence.
If for example $seq contains elements a, b, c, b, e:
how do I select
- everything before the first b
- everything from the first b to the end
- the position of the first b?
As $seq[self::b][1]/preceding-sibling::* is not good because it possibly
selects element outside the sequence, but are preceding-siblings in the
document.
$seq[self::b][1]/preceding-sibling::* intersect $seq
would restrict the elements to those in the sequence
The alternative is to copy the nodes into a variable and use that
instead of a sequence, or course refactor your transform so that the
selection and processing aren't separate steps (usually they're not)
--
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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