On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 10:03 AM, Ugo Cei wrote:

> Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
>
>> Isn't Xindice collection already ordered by time document was inserted?
>
> It looks like it is, but I don't know if this is guaranteed.
>

It's not, indexing in particular could alter the order.

>> Than simple query like /db/blog/*[position() > last()-20] should work
>> then, or something like /db/blog/*[position() =
>> last()]/preceding::*[position() < 20] should even inverse the order...
>
> It doesn't work. position() is 1 for all the nodes returned. This sitemap 
> entry retrieves all the items in the collection:
>

That's right, position will only apply within a single document, not 
across documents in a collection.

> <map:match pattern="">
>  <map:generate 
> src="xmldb:xindice://dbsun.cbim.it:4080/db/rssblog/#/rss:item[position()=1]
> "/>
>  <map:transform src="stylesheets/xmldb2rss.xsl" label="rss"/>
>  <map:transform src="stylesheets/blog.xsl"/>
>  <map:serialize/>
> </map:match>
>
> If I change "position()=1" to "position()=2", then no item is found.
>
>       Ugo
>
>
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