XSL: Issue with tokenizing in the for loop - xslt

Question

I am using the following stylesheet for displaying a table in the excel workbook with the data. I am not able to get the desired result instead it is displaying as differently as given below.
Suggestions Pls?
The stylesheet used:
<xsl:stylesheet>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="test1" select="str:tokenize('1$,$2$,$3$,$4$,$5','$,$')" />
<xsl:variable name="test2" select="str:tokenize('a$,$b$,$c$,$d$,$e','$,$')" />
<xsl:for-each select="str:split('1a$,$2b$,$3c$,$4d$,$5e','$,$')>
<row>
<cell Index="1">
<xsl:value-of select="$test1[position()]" />
</cell>
<cell Index="2">
<xsl:value-of select="$test2[position()]" />
</cell>
</row>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
Expected Result:
1 a
2 b
3 c
4 d
5 e
Where as the result displayed as
a b
c d
e
It seems like the it is displaying the latest tokenize values.
How to get respected values.

Answer 1

Good question, +1.
It seems to me that instead of:
<xsl:value-of select="$test1[position()]" />
this must be:
<xsl:value-of select="$test1[position() = current()]" />
Exactly the same observation holds for the second <xsl:value-of>
Explanation:
Any expression
$var[position()]
is equivalent to:
$var
because position() can only have values >= 1 and [position()] means the boolean value of position() , and the boolean value of any non-negative number by definition is true().
If we want to select the $k-th node in the node-set $var, in XPath 1.0, which is weakly-typed and it isn't known that $k holds an integer, we have to write:
$var[position() = $k]
Here is a complete, corresponding XSLT 2.0 solution:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="test1" select=
"tokenize('1$,$2$,$3$,$4$,$5','\$,\$')" />
<xsl:variable name="test2" select=
"tokenize('a$,$b$,$c$,$d$,$e','\$,\$')" />
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize('1a$,$2b$,$3c$,$4d$,$5e','\$,\$')">
<row>
<cell Index="1">
<xsl:value-of select="$test1[position()]" />
</cell>
<cell Index="2">
<xsl:value-of select="$test2[position()]" />
</cell>
</row>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when applied on any XML document (ignored), the wanted, correct result is produced:
<row xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<cell Index="1">1 2 3 4 5</cell>
<cell Index="2">a b c d e</cell>
</row>
<row xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<cell Index="1">1 2 3 4 5</cell>
<cell Index="2">a b c d e</cell>
</row>
<row xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<cell Index="1">1 2 3 4 5</cell>
<cell Index="2">a b c d e</cell>
</row>
<row xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<cell Index="1">1 2 3 4 5</cell>
<cell Index="2">a b c d e</cell>
</row>
<row xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<cell Index="1">1 2 3 4 5</cell>
<cell Index="2">a b c d e</cell>
</row>