position() and last()

Returns the position of an item in a sequence
Syntax: item/position()
Example: //role/position() returns the number of each role in the list of roles
Task: find the stage direction in the last line Hamlet speaks
Note: the last() function returns the sequence number of the last node in the set

A first dozen XPath functions, slide 8 of 9

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