Not noticing space is a *the* common pitfall in xslt! If you before 4.1.2 had spaces and it spit out a,b then the earlier version did not count the text-nodes and therefore was erroneous.
marcus and good morning to Matt - i am nearly going to bed if there wasn't so much work left.... At 20:12 18.04.2002, Matt McClanahan wrote: >On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:09:01PM -0400, Ken Egervari wrote: > > > I know that there is a workaround (which is obvious), but I just > > wanted to report it. position() is supposed to return the position > > of the node within the current node list. So i'd expect 1,2,3,4...N. > > It's just strange why it would behave otherwise. As for doing it > > this way? I'm just playing around and noticed it. this isn't > > production code at all. > >This should've occured to me before sending the first reply, but, eh. >Memory doesn't work so well so soon after waking up. > >It actually is reporting the correct position, if your XML is >indendted. For example: > ><root> > <application name="a" /> > <application name="b" /> ></root> > >has two text nodes in it at positions 1 and 3. So position() correctly >reports the application nodes as being at 2 and 4. The only workaround >for that is to take all the whitespace out of your XML: > ><root><application name="a" /><application name="b" /></root> > >Matt > >-- >PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
