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Re: position() oddity?
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] position() oddity?
- From: Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:37:06 -0700 (MST)
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Peter Flynn wrote:
> <headers>
> <title>First</title>
> <title>Second</title>
> <title>Third</title>
> <title>Fourth</title>
> <title>Fifth</title>
> </headers>
>
> what would you expect position() in template match "headers/title" to
> return? Currently it returns 2 4 6 8 10 using test.xsl (appended) when
> run through xt and cocoon. It's not quite what I expected (1 2 3 4 5 :-)
...
> <xsl:template match="headers">
> <tr>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </tr>
> </xsl:template>
xsl:apply-templates sets the current node list to all the child nodes of
the current node. You apparently thought that the only children were the
'title' elements.
% saxon foo.xml ascii-treeview.xsl
root
|___processing instruction target='cocoon-process' instruction='type="xslt"'
|___processing instruction target='xml-stylesheet' instruction='href="test.xsl" type="text/xsl"'
|___element 'headers'
|___text '\n '
|___element 'title'
| |___text 'First'
|___text '\n '
|___element 'title'
| |___text 'Second'
|___text '\n '
|___element 'title'
| |___text 'Third'
|___text '\n '
|___element 'title'
| |___text 'Fourth'
|___text '\n '
|___element 'title'
| |___text 'Fifth'
|___text '\n'
- Mike
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