Re: Firefox XSLT position()

Lucky <[email protected]> Sat, 07 May 2005 01:55:01 -0400
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.layout.xslt
Organization	Cox Communications
Message-ID	<YKYee.18528$Um.6490@lakeread08>
David wrote:
> Hi all,
> As a newby, I don't understand the position() in Firefox.
> Here my XML sample.
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="aaa.xsl"?>
> <AAA>
>   <BBB>a</BBB>
>   <BBB>b</BBB>
>   <BBB>c</BBB>
> </AAA>
> 
> 
> Here my two XSLT tests
> 1.
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> version="1.0">
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <html>
>     <body>
>       <p>(<xsl:value-of select="position()" />)</p>
>       <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     </body>
>   </html>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="BBB">
>       <p>(<xsl:value-of select="position()" />)
>       <xsl:value-of select="." />
>       </p>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> 2.
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> version="1.0">
> 
> <xsl:template match="AAA">
>   <html>
>     <body>
>       <p>(<xsl:value-of select="position()" />)</p>
>       <xsl:for-each select="BBB">
>       <p>
>         (<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>)
>         <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>       </p>
>       </xsl:for-each>
>     </body>
>   </html>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> What I expect is something like:
> 
> (1)
> 
> (1) a
> 
> (2) b
> 
> (3) c
> 
> For 1. I have :
> 
> (1)
> 
> (2) a
> 
> (4) b
> 
> (6) c
> 
> For 2.  I have:
> 
> (2)
> 
> (1) a
> 
> (2) b
> 
> (3) c
> 
> Is there something wrong about position() on Firefox
> or I do something wrong ?
> (I have test a little on IE and it seems to work as expected)
> 
> Thanks for you light.
> David
this does seem a bit odd, it seems to be something with the way Moz 
calculates in the #text areas, or whitespacing of node indentions;

here is a modified version #1 you had:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
version="1.0">
   <xsl:template match="/">
     <html>
       <body>
         <p>(<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>)</p>
         <xsl:apply-templates/>
       </body>
     </html>
   </xsl:template>
   <xsl:template match="BBB">
     <p>
       (<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>)
       [<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>]
       <xsl:value-of select="."/>
     </p>
   </xsl:template>
   <xsl:template match="text()">
     <p>
       (<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>)
       [#text] length="<xsl:value-of select="string-length(.)"/>"
     </p>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

prints out:
(1)

(1) [#text] length="3"

(2) [BBB] a

(3) [#text] length="3"

(4) [BBB] b

(5) [#text] length="3"

(6) [BBB] c

(7) [#text] length="1"

and your #3 version seems fine for both ie + moz;