Hi all,

I am currently using this code to list the values of all the topic titles in my document (used to generate a table of contents):

<xsl:for-each select="*[contains(@class,' topic/topic ')]">
      <fo:block>
    <xsl:value-of select="*[contains(@class,' topic/title ')]"/>
      </fo:block>
</xsl:for-each>

I am trying to create a variation that will only display the title from the last occurrence of the topic node instead of for all of them in the document.

How can I modify the code to specify "last occurrence of" instead of "for-each"?

TIA!

Simplest change is

<xsl:for-each select="*[contains(@class,' topic/topic ')][last()]">

but you could also collapse this into the value-of, i.e.

    <fo:block>
    <xsl:value-of select="*[contains(@class,' topic/topic ')][last()]/*[contains(@class,' topic/title ')]"/>
      </fo:block>


Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thanks for the reply Mr. Kay,

I should have been a little clearer - I am trying to get the code to retrieve the last occurrence of topic/title from when it is called. I tried to code you posted and it retrieves the last occurrence in the entire document.

In other words, when the template is called it should go UP the tree until it finds the last occurrence of topic/title and then display that value.

I should know better than to respond to questions that require making wild guesses about the structure of the source document.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference