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RE: container list display problem


At 03:46 PM 5/2/2002, I just wrote:
>I hate to catch Mike out (hee :-), but when he writes:
>
>>I haven't tried to understand your detailed logic but the
>>parent::c02[last()] test looks wrong. A node has exactly one parent so the
>>predicate [last()] is always true.
>
>He's forgetting that when a predicate expression is reduced to a simple 
>number (as [last()] would be), it's inferred to be shorthand for 
>[position()=last()], so the problem isn't there. [XPath 2.4]

But of course he's correct that there's only one parent, so testing whether 
it's the last won't do much. (It figures Mike is right all along....)

I think the rest of what I said is okay though.

Cheers,
Wendell


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