Microsoft XML - Re: return position of node using XML DOM (position () ?? in XML

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Re: return position of node using XML DOM (position () ?? in XML

Martin Honnen

2005-02-25, 6:36 pm

Philip wrote:

> but if passing using the XML DOM in JavaScript - how can we get the position
> of a node selected using an XPATH query?

If you use selectNodes then you get a NodeList to which you can loop and
then the loop variable gives you the position in the NodeList (index
starts with 0 whereas XPath position starts with 1).
A node itself taken out of context doesn't have a position itself.

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