Re: [xsl] Absolute position

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Carmelo,

If I understand your question correctly, for each element as the context 
node, your magic number is

count(preceding::node()|ancestor::node())

or, if you want text nodes (and especially pesky whitespace-only text 
nodes) to be excluded,

count(preceding::*|ancestor::*)

You may have to make an allowance also for the root node (depending on 
whether you want it counted or not).

Regards,
Wendell

At 09:23 AM 3/15/01, you wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>     Does anyone knows how to get the aboslute value of an element
>within a tree? and by that I  mean the order on which it is listed
>within that tree.  Look at the tree below
>
>   <child1>
>   </child1>
>   <child2> ...
>
>To be more clear I am looking for this type of information
>
>"child1" - is number 1
>"child2" - is number 2
>"child2-1" - is number 3
>... and so on ....
>
>in other words its "absolute position" as you read from to to bottom and
>I want to know that information when THAT node is the context node
>in other words if  "child6" is the current node I want to know that
>it is really number 6 as I read. Any ideas?

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