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Subject: Re: [xsl] Fwd: XSLT 2.0 Determining Position of Sequence Item During "for expression" evaluation
From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:50:10 -0700

On 3/16/07, John McGowan <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3/16/07, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> for $cnt in  count(  $pages )
>              return
>                  (
>                     ( for $cnt2 in $cnt,
>                           $p in 1 to $cnt2 - 1
>                              return
>                                 ($pages[$p],   '>')
>                      ),
>                      $pages[$cnt]
>                   )
>

Thanks Dimitre! That works. I'll remember that nesting approach in the future.

However, string-join is just too easy to pass up. :)

Sure. Both methods can be more useful in some cases and not so much in other. When one wants to mix different kind of items (not only strings), then string-join will not be too useful.


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