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Re: A Counter Variable in XSLT?
Hi David,
please articulate your objective clearly :
what i can glean from the previous mails and this one is that you want to
select all nodes which have a col attribute and then display them as an
incremented serial number followed by the content of the attribute and the
content of the node which matched.
Manu
> What I want to do:
>
> My stylesheet consists of one template rule. When there is a
> match, I want a line in the output to say, for example, "Match #
> 123:", followed by relevant text. Since I don't know ahead of
> time how many matches there will be in the source document,
> somehow the stylesheet needs to keep a count. Something like:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
> <xsl:template match="/*">
> <xsl:if test="@col">
> Match # n : <!-- n is the nth match, the thing that needs to
> be incremented -->
> Collection: "<xsl:value-of select="@col"/>"
> Content: <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>how can n ever be anything other than 1 in this example.
>you are matching on /* and there is always exactly one
>element which is a child of the root of a well formed XML document.
>So it seems like n is 1 if that element has a col attribute and 0
>otherwise, or your example was not representative of what you intended.
>
>David
>
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