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- From: "Nestel, Frank ISC 6" <nestefan at de dot ina dot com>
- To: "'xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Cc: "Cremerius, Alexandra ISC 6" <cremeaex at de dot ina dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 17:16:55 +0100
- Subject: [xsl] xsl:number
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Hi,
I'm not sure wheather this is a feature request or
another lack of understanding of XSLT on my side.
Suppose I have a bunch of source documents like
<doc>
<chap id="1">..</chap>
<chap id="2">..</chap>
<weird-structure>
<chap id="3">..</chap>
<weird-structure>
<chap id="4">..</chap>
</weird-structure>
..
</weird-structure>
<chap id="n">..</chap>
<doc>
We need to generate a fairly reshuffled version of
that as output (and with lots of layout, btw), i.e.
<doc>
<chap id="m">1. ..</chap>
<chap id="2">2. ..</chap>
<chap id="3">3. ..</chap>
..
<chap id="4">(n-1). ..</chap>
<chap id="1">n. ..</chap>
<doc>
The reshuffling depends on complex criteria and is content
based. What we'd like to have is a monotone increasing number
for the output chapters, with hierarchical numbers for subchapters
(not depicted above). It seems like xsl:number is not an
appropriate tool for that?!
The only solutions I can think of are either based on feeding
the output of one stylesheet into another one or on using xslt1.1,
i.e. builing an ordered nodeset first and processing this a
second time, which is essentially using two stylesheets.
I wonder if there is a "purer" way to do it.
Thanks,
Frank Nestel
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