Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • SEARCH
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 649477
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T21:56:54+00:00 2026-05-13T21:56:54+00:00

My sample input XML is: <root> <a> <b>item</b> <b>item1</b> <b>item2</b> <b>item3</b> <b>item4</b> </a> </root>

  • 0

My sample input XML is:

<root>
 <a>
   <b>item</b>
   <b>item1</b>
   <b>item2</b>
   <b>item3</b>
   <b>item4</b>
 </a>
</root>

I am suppose to select a node b whose position is the value of a variable.

How can I use the value of a variable to test the position of a node?

  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. Editorial Team
    Editorial Team
    2026-05-13T21:56:54+00:00Added an answer on May 13, 2026 at 9:56 pm

    you can use this:

    /root/a/b[position()=$variable]
    

    position() is 1 based

    http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.3/expressions.html

    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Related Questions

Consider this sample code: <div class=containter id=ControlGroupDiv> <input onbeforeupdate=alert('bingo 0'); return false; onclick=alert('click 0');return
I'm looking for the best way to take a simple input: echo -n Enter
I'm doing simple string input parsing and I am in need of a string
I want in an application with a simple text input, enriched with some marks
I need a simple window with three input boxes and three labels (login name,
I have a simple webform that will allow unauthenticated users to input their information,
Is there a simple way of getting a HTML textarea and an input type=text
Simple question that keeps bugging me. Should I HTML encode user input right away
I have a simple form with some plain html input like bellow using ASP.NET
I have a really simple Java class that effectively decorates a Map with input

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.