<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >absolute-child-number</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="DSSSL Library Reference" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="ISO/IEC 10179" HREF="r49.htm"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="map" HREF="map.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Debug" HREF="r274.htm"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >DSSSL Library Reference: Part of the Modular DocBook Stylesheet distribution</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="map.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r274.htm" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="ABSOLUTE-CHILD-NUMBER" ></A >absolute-child-number</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN252" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >absolute-child-number -- Returns the absolute child number of the specified node</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN255" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >(absolute-child-number #!optional (nd (current-node)))</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN258" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >Returns the child number, regardless of gi, of <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >snl</TT > within its parent.</P ><P >Isn't there a better way to get this?</P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT >snl</DT ><DD ><P >The node (singleton node list) whose child number is desired.</P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN268" ></A ><H2 >Author</H2 ><P >Norman Walsh, <ndw@nwalsh.com></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN271" ></A ><H2 >Source Code</H2 ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >(define (absolute-child-number #!optional (nd (current-node))) ;; Returns the absolute child number of the specified node (+ (node-list-length (preced nd)) 1))</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="map.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r274.htm" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >map</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r49.htm" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Debug</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >