Hello --

I've got an element node that's part of a document.  I need its position among the element children of its parent.

$step/position() will (correctly!) always return 1, there's one thing in $step, of course it does.

replace($step/path(),'^.*\[(\p{Nd}+)\]$','$1') => xs:integer()

gets me the implicit position but is something of a horror.

for $e at $in in $step/../* where $e is $step return $in

works, too, but any notion of elegance and clarity have fled screaming into the night.

I keep thinking there must be a better way; anyone got any suggestions?

I think functx has some node-index-of you could use or use e.g.

  index-of($step/../*/generate-id(), generate-id($step))