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RE: Attempting to find the first index of a group of nodes in a node set.
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:14:25 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Attempting to find the first index of a group of nodes in a node set.
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
>
> I have a node with several child elements of different types.
> I would like to find the first index of one of these child
> elements. For example I have
>
> <parent>
> <child1 />
> <child2 />
> <child3 />
> <child2 />
> <child1 />
> <child4 />
> <child2 />
> <child3 />
> <child5 />
> </parent>
>
> I would like to set a variable that is equal to the position
> of the first appearance of <child 4/> or <child5/>. In this
> example it would be <child4/> at position 6.
>
count((child4|child5)[1]/preceding-sibling::*)+1
Michael Kay
Software AG
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