Re: [xslt] problem with key and position() function

[Stéphane Mottelet <stephane mottelet utc fr>]

Daniel Veillard a écrit :
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:33:29PM +0200, Stéphane Mottelet wrote:
>   
> > Hi folks, I am encoutering a problem when using the
> > function position() with the result of a key().
> >     
> [...]
>   
> >             <xsl:value-of select="position(key('match_a','second'))"/>
> >     
> [...]
>   
> > Is it  a bug, or am I missing something. I would expect to get the result :
> >
> > <result>2</result>
> >     
>
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-key
>  it returns a node-set containing the nodes in the same document as the context node that have a value for the named key equal to this string.
>
> there would be only one element in that node set, so the position can only be 1
> so what you wrote is probably not what you expected.
>
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-position
>
> does not take any argument.
> Nothing replace checking the docs a bit when learning a new language
>
> Daniel
>
>   
Yes, I am still learning... But do you know a way to do what I am
expecting ?

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