problem with the position function

[Douglas Conklin <do...@nightfire.com>]

Hi all,

    I am having a problem with the position() function when processing with
Xalan-J 2.2.0.

    In one particular usage of position() against a series of nodes, the
position() function always returns 0. 
    when processing with Xalan-J 1.0.1 the same application of the position
function returns the appropriate number. 

    I looked in the Xalan-j 2.2.0 docs / release notes / bug list, as well
as searched this mailing list, and I haven't seen anything like this. 

    Is this a tightening of processor against the XSL spec, or is this a bug
in the processor?

    TIA.

	easy,
	douglas d



    Here are a small example stylesheet, input xml, Xalan 1.0.1 output, and
Xalan 2.2.0 output.

    Note that when I remove the -1 from <xsl:value-of
select="position()-1"/> so that it is <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>,
the numbers are all 0, so it isn't the addition that is failing. 

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xsl
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
	<Request>
		<xsl:apply-templates/>
	</Request>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="directorycontainer">
	<directorycontainer type="container">
		<directory>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="directory"/>
		</directory>
	</directorycontainer>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="directory">
	<xsl:apply-templates>
		<xsl:with-param name="index">
			<xsl:value-of select="position()-1"/>
		</xsl:with-param>
	</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="directory/*">
	<xsl:param name="index"/>
	<xsl:variable name="field">
		<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
	</xsl:variable>
	<xsl:variable name="field_index">
		<xsl:value-of select="concat($field,'_',$index)"/>
	</xsl:variable>
	<xsl:element name="{$field_index}">
		<xsl:attribute name="value">
			<xsl:value-of select="@value"/>
		</xsl:attribute>
	</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:transform>

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input xml
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<Request>
	<directorycontainer type="container">
		<directory>
			<A value="a"/>
		</directory>
		<directory>
			<B value="b"/>
		</directory>
		<directory>
			<C value="c"/>
		</directory>
	</directorycontainer>
</Request>


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Xalan 1.0.1 output XML 
(what I was getting and would like to get)
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Request>
	<directorycontainer type="container">
		<directory>
			<A_0 value="a"/>
		
			<B_1 value="b"/>
		
			<C_2 value="c"/>
		</directory>
	</directorycontainer>
</Request>



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Xalan 2.2.0 output XML 
(what I get now which I don't like)
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Request>
	<directorycontainer type="container"><directory>
			<A_-1 value="a"/>
		
			<B_-1 value="b"/>
		
			<C_-1 value="c"/>
		</directory></directorycontainer>
</Request>