Adding a value to a variable

[LuckyKoen]

I want to assign the position of the first my-element that is greater than $start-position. However, the following code adds the position of every element to the variable's value and I end up with a long list of numbers. How do I only select the first position() ?

<xsl:variable name = "my-position"
      <xsl:for-each select="//my-element">
        <xsl:if test="position() &gt; $start-position">       
          <xsl:value-of select = "position()"/>
        </xsl:if>
      </xsl:for-each>   
</xsl:variable>

 

[simonchristieis]

what you are doing is looping through all the my-element 's and assigning all the values to the variable. try this:


<xsl:variable name = "my-position">
<xsl:value-of select="//my-element[position()&gt; $start-position ]/position()">
</xsl:variable>

 

[LuckyKoen]

Simon, I got an error when adding the /position() after the condition : "Name or Nodetype test expected: "

Without it the code works though :

<xsl:value-of select="//my-element[position()&gt; $start-position ]"/>