- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:23:40 +0100
- To: mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu
- CC: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
this list is more for FO issues than XSLT programming (I think) but
anyway
<xsl:apply-templates
select="self::*[position() + 1]"
self::* selects at most 1 node, which will always have position()=1
but in any case, if you use [] with a numeric value rather than a
predicate it is short for
[position()=...]
so *[1] means *[position()=1]
and selects the first thing and
[position() + 1] is short for [position()=(position() + 1)] and selects
all those elements for which 0=1 ie, it selects the empty set.
Actually it's a bit tricky in pure xslt 1 to sort and then access the
sorted list at the same time, as the sorted list information goes to the
result tree where by design you can't really get it back.
If you can use your processor's node-set extension (if it has one) first
sort the input into a temporary variable then process every other item
in this sorted list, and access the next item by
following-sibling::*[1]
if xx:node-set() isn't available, ask again:-)
David
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