Re: Last tango in Paris

[Nigel S. <nig...@us...>]

> If I have a lot of tango nodes with a place attribute, and I want to find
the
> 5th tango in Paris, according to the Xpath definition, I should be able to
do:
>
> tango[@place="Paris"][5]
>
> similarly, if I want to find the last tango in Paris, I should be able to
do:
>
> tango[@place="Paris"][last()]
>
> However, I've tried numerous variations on this in the usecases testbench
and
> can't get it to work - it either finds nothing or tells me there's an
invalid
> number of brackets. I can find all the tangos in Paris, and the last
tango,
> but not the two together. Is this a bug, something not handled (yet?), or
is
> there some other notation I can use? (ok, I know I can fetch all the
tangos
> in Paris and then use PHP to get the last in the array.)

I wonder if this is related to the fact that //*[last()] returns multiple
nodes instead of one?

I tried:

     //employee[(@gender='m') and (position() = last())]

against:

    company-structure.xml

at:

http://www.carrubbers.org/scripts/php/xpath/testBench/useCases/index.php

And it returns:

    [0] => /company[1]/department[1]/employee[2]
    [1] => /company[1]/department[2]/employee[2]
    [2] => /company[1]/department[4]/employee[2]
    [3] => /company[1]/department[5]/employee[2]

Where:

     //employee[(@gender='m')]

Returns:

    [0] => /company[1]/department[1]/employee[1]
    [1] => /company[1]/department[1]/employee[2]
    [2] => /company[1]/department[2]/employee[1]
    [3] => /company[1]/department[2]/employee[2]
    [4] => /company[1]/department[3]/employee[1]
    [5] => /company[1]/department[4]/employee[1]
    [6] => /company[1]/department[4]/employee[2]
    [7] => /company[1]/department[5]/employee[1]
    [8] => /company[1]/department[5]/employee[2]

Is that any use??

Nigel

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