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Thanks; Ettiquette
- To: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: Thanks; Ettiquette
- From: Lee Goddard <LGoddard at VHN dot NET>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:19:33 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Thanks David.
Now might be the time to ask: it takes
up a fair amount of list bandwidth
posting my thanks. Would anyone be
offended if I just stuck with the thanks
in advance, as so many don't post
e-mail address?
lee
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@nag.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 4:05 AM
> To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: First element of type, in same context
>
>
>
>
> Is there an XPath that will allow me to
> output/flag the first occurance of an element
> within a document, during a for-each loop?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Lee Goddard
>
> If your for-each is selecting all the relevant nodes then you can just
> do test="position()=1" otherwise if the for-each is selecting a subset
> of the nodes and you just want to check that there is no
> earlier node of
> this type then you can do
> test="not(preceding::xxx)"
>
> But without more information its hard to say exactly what
> construct you
> want.
>
> David
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