> unsatisfactory about that solution. It still leaves the question: is there an alternative for 
> position()?

What have you got against position()
It's very hard to think of answers to your question without knowing
_why_ you are trying to solve the problem only using a subset of the
language, and without knowing exactly which subset that is.

David


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