Hello,

Did anyone put up

<xsl:template match="head[. Is /descendant::head[1]]"/>

?

Apologies if I have forgotten the actual requirement --

Cheers, Wendell

-----Original Message-----
From: Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2024 4:52 PM
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Subject: Re:  targeting the 'first' instance of the same element in
variable structures

On Tue, 2024-07-02 at 11:42 +0000, Jean-Paul Rehr rehrjb@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
>
> > >
> > > for $div in $mydoc//body/div
> > > return
> > >       transform:transform($div, $myxsl, ())
> > >

So, you want to match the first head element in each fragment, or the first in
$mydoc?

If the first in each fragment
    <xsl:template match="head[not(precding::head])" priority="10">
      this is first
and
    <xsl:template match="head[preceding::head]">
      not the first

If you want only the first in $Mydoc, that information isn't available to XSLT
when you pass just a fragment, so maybe add an XSLT parameter to say,
first=yes.

liam

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