> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Koberg [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:41 AM
> To: Karr, David
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Can Xpath 1.0 print "position()" results?
>
>
> On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Karr, David wrote:
>
> > Not that I really need to know this, but someone asked this on
> > StackOverflow, and now I gotta know. :)
> >
> > Is it possible for a plain Xpath 1.0 query to return a
> "position()"
> > value? I know it can be used in predicates, but that
> simply results
> > in the found element at that position. I know I can return the
> > "text()" result from an Xpath, but is it not possible to return the
> > "position()" value? If that's the case, I imagine there are other
> > functions that might seem logical to get values from that
> won't work
> > like this.
> >
>
> <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
>
> of course this is entirely dependent on the context you are
> in and how you got to the context you are in.
Thanks, but I'm asking specifically for Xpath, not XSLT.
