position() doesn't return expected value

[Yereth]

Hi again,

still working on my xslt program and I ran into another problem. There is a
file which a contains the following structure:

<key>1</key>
<dict>
********...
</dict>
<key>2</key>
<dict>
********..
</dict>

When I am in a "dict" tag I want to get the value from the key before it,
because they belong to eachother.. (don't ask me why it's constructed like
this, wasn't my work) Now I wrote the following code which should do the
job:

<xsl:template match="plist/dict">
********<xsl:element*name="playlist">
****************<xsl:for-each*select="child::dict/dict">
************************<xsl:call-template*name="track"/>
****************</xsl:for-each>
********</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="track">
********<xsl:element*name="track">
****************<xsl:variable*name="pos"*select="p osition()"/>
****************<xsl:apply-templates*select="preceding-sibling::key[position()
$pos]"/>
****************<xsl:for-each*select="child::key">
************************<xsl:call-template*name="key_value"/>
****************</xsl:for-each>
********</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

Only, once pos has gained a value, it doesn't seem to get a new value in the
next round of the "for-each" loop.. is this a bug or am I making a mistake
in my thinking? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Yereth

[Peter Flynn]

What I just said. To find the element position, count the preceding
siblings of the same name, eg

<xsl:if test="count(preceding-sibling::dict)=0">

means "this is the first dict child of its parent".

Personally I would have called the existing function node-position()
and kept position() to mean what it always meant before: position
within the elements; but I think the design team assumed everyone
would be processing without a DTD or Schema, and would therefore
not be handling only element nodes. But that's life.

///Peter