Hello, as I know, the position() function delivers only the order position in the list of all childs of the parent node. So it is not usefull to limit the results of a query.
To limit the results in a query, you should use the "limit(int)" function of the resulting query object. Greetings Michael On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:08:40 +0200, Xiaojie Shen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I saw an announce in 2007 that position() function doesn't work in release > 2.1. Is it the same today? > > If it works now, can somebody explain how to use position() in Xpath query > to limit the number of search results? For example, how should it be used > to the query below? > String query = "//element(*, nt:file) [jcr:like(@jcr:createdBy, 'u%')] > order by @jcr:created descending"; > > Thanks in advance! > Shen
