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RE: Equivalent of a Global Counter
- To: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: RE: Equivalent of a Global Counter
- From: Bassi Suk <bassi dot s at mellon dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 03:17:03 -0500
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Michael,
I have a similar problem.
Does a two-pass transformation involve having on stylesheets applied to the
XMLSource and another stylesheet applied to the resultant XML Document? Or
can it be encapsulated in the same stylesheet?
Thanks.
Suk.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kay Michael [SMTP:Michael.Kay@icl.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 10:12 AM
> To: 'xsl-list@mulberrytech.com'
> Subject: RE: Equivalent of a Global Counter
>
> > So, what I'm looking for would look something like this (...
> > means any id):
> >
> > <front id="...">
> > <prov id="...1">
> > <subprov id="..."></subprov>
> > </prov>
> > <label.para id="...">
> > <para id="...2"></para>
> > </label.para>
> > <clause id="...3"></clause>
> > </front>
> >
> > as you can see, the structure of the document is not relevant
> > in terms of what number is used, its more of an incremental concept.
>
> I think I would solve this either with an extension function,
> getSequenceNumber(), which returns a stream of sequence numbers, or with a
> two-pass transformation, in which the sequence numbers are added in the
> second phase using <xsl:number/> or count(preceding::*). Or perhaps even
> with a post-processing SAX filter which adds the id's. None of these is a
> particularly "pure" XSLT solution, but when it comes down to doing real
> work, I'm a pragmatist.
>
> Mike Kay
>
>
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