Re: [xsl] A position question

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

At 12:56 PM 2/13/02, Eliot wrote:
> > I would like to find the positions of the elemB elements with id="11". 
> I can
> > get the next one by following-sibling::elemB[@id="11"], but I don't 
> know how
> > to find it's position in the context node. Any suggestions?
>
>Count the number of preceding siblings:
>count(preceding-siblings::elemB[@id="11"])

Yes, this is exactly right, it avoids that problem with position() I 
described in that other thread.

If you want it to work on any elemB, say

count(preceding-sibling::elemB[@id=current()/@id])

Cheers,
Wendell



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