RE: problem with position()

[<rob.cavicchio@emc.com>]

Stefan Seefeld [mailto:stefan@seefeld.name] wrote:


> <xsl:template match="d:section/d:orderedlist/d:listitem" mode="xref-to">
>    <xsl:param name="referrer"/>
>    <xsl:param name="xrefstyle"/>
>    [<xsl:value-of
> select="ancestor::d:section/d:titleabbrev"/>]/<xsl:copy-of
> select="position()"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> However, this always results in a label of the form "[...]/1", i.e. the
> reported position is "1", no matter whether the matched listitem is
> actually the first or not. (Please find attached a little test doc that
> results in:


The value returned by the "position" function depends on the context in which you retrieve the element. It can sometimes be a mind-bending exercise to try to figure out exactly what you're supposed to get back from it.

In this case, you might try to simply count how many elements come before it, and add 1. This also lets you be more specific about what you're counting. So instead of:

	select="position()"

try:

	select="count(preceding-sibling::listitem) + 1"

I didn't test this, but I think it should work.


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