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At 07:19 AM 8/16/2004, David wrote:
> maybe a silly question, but why exactly do you need the ()? something > like //* with a predicate [] should be enough or not? Another (simple) way to do it is /descendant::*[position() < 50] ...which may be less confusing for those not schooled in the arcana of XPath short syntax (but who use it anyway). Note these are solutions to "iterating X times", but often in XSLT you only need to do this because you want to group a given set of nodes into batches of X, in which case the "Piez method" (iterating over an arbitrary set of nodes that happens to be large enough) is not only sneaky (and maybe ugly), it's gratuitous. Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
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