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Posted: **Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:21 am**

Hi,

I'm getting odd results when I use the position() function within an XSLT 2.0 stylesheet and the SaxonB 9.1.0.3 transformer.

Given a simple XML document such as the following

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<xml ...>

<table>

  <table-row>

  ...

  </table-row>

  <table-row>

  ...

  </table-row>

  ...

</table>

and an XSLT template:

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<xsl:template match="/table/table-row">

  <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>

</xsl:template>

I expect to see an ordered list of numbers starting with 1. However, the transformation prints out the numbered sequence 2, 4, 6... (text nodes perhaps?) This does not occur with the SaxonSA transformer or with XPath 2.0 and XPath 2.0 SA searches.

I understand that this is most likely an issue with the transformer and not with Oxygen XML, but I thought I'd give this a try anyway.

Posted: **Sun Dec 28, 2008 3:24 pm**

Hi,

That is the correct behavior and I get the same also with Saxon SA. The cause is the built in template that matches on table and applies the templates on all child nodes of table. If you put a second template as below

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    <xsl:template match="/table/table-row">

        <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>

    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="/table/text()">

        <xsl:text>[text </xsl:text>

        <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>

        <xsl:text>]</xsl:text>

    </xsl:template>

you will see

[text 1]2[text 3]4[text 5]

as result.
If you want 1, 2, etc. for table rows then match on table and apply templates only on elements:

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    <xsl:template match="table">

        <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>

    </xsl:template>

Best Regards,
George

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