Subject: Re: Calling position() on a parent element
From: Graham Ashton <gashton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08 May 2002 16:38:19 +0100
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On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 16:58, Oleg Tkachenko wrote:
> >
> > Obviously, the "position(parent)" part is wrong (it just illustrates
> > what I'd like to do).
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> Try count(../preceding-sibling::*) to count number of preceding siblings of
> the parent element.
Thanks -- it works a treat. :)
You've made my afternoon, especially when I realised I could do:
count(../../preceding-sibling::*)
to go up another level (honestly -- it took real thought).
<scales fall from eyes/>
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Graham Ashton
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