Hi Stewart, It is a mistake made in XSLT as well. The positional predicate operates on document order. Your expression is literally searching for any xh:a element that occurs as first xh:a element within its parent. That is quite something different then ($div//xh:a)[1]..
:-) Best regards, Geert > Drs. G.P.H. Josten Consultant http://www.daidalos.nl/ Daidalos BV Source of Innovation Hoekeindsehof 1-4 2665 JZ Bleiswijk Tel.: +31 (0) 10 850 1200 Fax: +31 (0) 10 850 1199 http://www.daidalos.nl/ KvK 27164984 De informatie - verzonden in of met dit emailbericht - is afkomstig van Daidalos BV en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onbedoeld hebt ontvangen, verzoeken wij u het te verwijderen. Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Stewart Shelline > Sent: woensdag 18 maart 2009 17:43 > To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion > Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] Unexpected results when > using a filter expression > > In the example below, I would expect the statement > $div//xh:a[1] to return the first <a> element, but instead, > it returns two <a> elements. Curiously, if I filter for the > second <a> element using [2], it works. What am I missing? > > > xquery version "1.0-ml"; > declare namespace xh = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";; > > <lds-terms> > { > for $letter at $ctr in ("A") > let $url := concat( "http://scriptures.lds.org/en/bd/";, > lower-case( $letter ), "/contents" ) > let $page := xdmp:tidy( xdmp:http-get( $url )[2] > )//xh:d...@class = "contents"] return > for $div in $page//xh:d...@class = "topics"] > return <term>{ $div//xh:a[1] }</term> } </lds-terms> > > > NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the > intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and > privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, > disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the > intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email > and destroy all copies of the original message. > > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general
