I want to traverse all but the first element in a set of elsement using for-each.
How do i skip the first element.

example code below...i want to print all mapping except the first one.It does not depend on the string value.Just that the first mapping element has to be ignored.


<tableData>
<rows>
<row>
<strData>
<mapping>Bucket</mapping>
<alignment>center</alignment>
<stringValue>008/stringValue>
</strData>
<strData>
<mapping>A</mapping>
<alignment>1center</alignment>
<stringValue>BBB</stringValue>
</strData>
<dblData>
<mapping>Loan</mapping>
<alignment>right</alignment>
<values>
<value formatString="#,##0">25.0</value>
</values>
<showZeros>true</showZeros>
</dblData>
</row>
</rows>
<rows>.................</rows>
<rows>.................</rows>
<rows>.................</rows>
</tableData>

<xsl:for-each select="(xxxxxxx)[position() != 1]">
  ...
</xsl:for-each>

or in your case

<xsl:for-each select="(strData/mapping)[position() != 1]">
  ...
</xsl:for-each>

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