Question

xml again..

I want to select a sub set of nodes ( for pagination purposes ) from a set.

$nodes = $xml->query(//parent
                        /child[sex = 'male' 
                               and position() >= 10 
                               and position() < 21]);

If I’m not mistaken that would only select male children who are the 10th to 20th child.

what I need is to select the first 10-20 (or 30-40) males in the set…

sure I’m being a noob and have done this before but its friday…

ta peeps

Answer 1

Have the position condition operate on the result nodeset of your initial condition:

//parent/child[sex='male'][position() >= 10 and position() < 21]