Re: XSLT bug

ahh, that makes sense. actually <template match="text()"> </template> would do it too. Cool. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt McClanahan" <cardinal@dodds.net> To: "Ken Egervari" <ken@positive-edge.com> Cc: <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] XSLT bug > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:09:01PM -0400, Ken Egervari wrote: > > > I know that there is a workaround (which is obvious), but I just > > wanted to report it. position() is supposed to return the position > > of the node within the current node list. So i'd expect 1,2,3,4...N. > > It's just strange why it would behave otherwise. As for doing it > > this way? I'm just playing around and noticed it. this isn't > > production code at all. > > This should've occured to me before sending the first reply, but, eh. > Memory doesn't work so well so soon after waking up. > > It actually is reporting the correct position, if your XML is > indendted. For example: > > <root> > <application name="a" /> > <application name="b" /> > </root> > > has two text nodes in it at positions 1 and 3. So position() correctly > reports the application nodes as being at 2 and 4. The only workaround > for that is to take all the whitespace out of your XML: > > <root><application name="a" /><application name="b" > /></root> > > Matt >