Hi,
I look to select a range of node using XSL.
I want to retrieve "Operation" node from #5 to #20, once sorted

Here is my XML :

<Operations>
    <Operation attribute1='' .... />
    <Operation attribute1='' .... />
    <Operation ... />
    <Operation ... />
    <Operation ... />
<Operations>

And here is my XSL :

<xsl:template match="Operations">
    <table id="tblOperation" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="Operation">
        <xsl:sort select="@Priority" data-type="number" order="ascending"/>
    </xsl:apply-templates>
    </table>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Operation">
    <td>
    ........
    </td>
</xsl:template>

I tried this patterns, but they aren't work (got no result or error):
<xsl:apply-templates select="Operation[. &gt; Operation[5] and . &lt; Operation[20]">
<xsl:apply-templates select="Operation[. &gt;&gt; Operation[5] and . &lt;&lt; Operation[20]">

btw, this work
<xsl:apply-templates select="Operation[5]">

Thanks for your time!:)
Christ

try something like "Operation[position() &gt; 5 and position() &lt; 20]"

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Thanks Sam

Your solution works a bit.
I retrieve the rows, but it's the rows before the sort! Is it possible to sort before retrieving the row 5 to 20 ?

btw i implement your solution like that :
<xsl:template match="Operations">
    <table id="tblOperation" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="Operation[position() &gt; 5 and position() &lt; 20]">
        <xsl:sort select="@Priority" data-type="number" order="ascending"/>
    </xsl:apply-templates>
    </table>
</xsl:template>

Thanks

The logic is probably clearer with for-each:

<xsl:for-each select="Operation">
  <xsl:sort select="@Priority" data-type="number"/>
  <xsl:if test="position() > 4 and 21 > position()">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

The above is XSLT 1.0, but I don't think there are major simplifications for 2.0.

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

That works fine!!:D
Thanks a lot!