Counting Qualified Elements

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Index Values of Elements in a List

If you want to display only the contents of the desc element of the first and the third chapters, you can use something like this:

<xsl:value-of select="//chapter[1]/desc"/> <xsl:value-of select="//chapter[3]/desc"/>

Unlike other programming languages such as Java, C, and C++, indexes start from 1 instead of 0. If you apply an XSL stylesheet that processes individual elements in a list of elements and you notice that you are 'off by one' (or nothing is displayed), verify that your index value is correct.

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