[xquery-talk] node position

[John Snelson]

You'll be wanting to use positional predicates:

$j/bookstore/book[1]
$j/bookstore/book[2]

John

fatma helmy wrote:
> let $j:=<bookstore>
> <book> ....</book>
> <book> ....</book>
> </bookstore>
> 
> how to distinguish between book nodes suppose i have
> no dtd and no node attribute identifier. can i get the
> node position to order them 1 , 2 ,, etc
> 
> 
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