Re: [xsl] xsl:number - What is Numbering Context?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>]

At 2002-06-24 14:37 -0500, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
>I am trying to number figures consecutively through a document.  I have
>a named template that handles generating the display text for figure
>captions. My intent is to re-use it for both the figure itself and cross
>references to figures:
>
><xsl:template name="figure-caption-text">
>   <xsl:text>Figure </xsl:text
>     ><xsl:number
>           count="Figure"
>           level="any"
>     /><xsl:text>. </xsl:text
>   ><xsl:apply-templates/>
></xsl:template>

BTW, the above could be shortened in your stylesheet to:

<xsl:template name="figure-caption-text">
   <xsl:text/>Figure <xsl:number count="Figure" level="any"/>. <xsl:text/>
   <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

>However, when I call it for the cross ref, I always get the value "1":

Your xref stuff looks just fine ... are you sure you are changing the 
current node along the lines of:

   <xsl:apply-templates select="id(@xrefptr)" mode="xref"/>

>Clearly I'm missing something.

The code you've shown seems just fine, but you don't show how you get there.

>I didn't see anything in the spec or the
>FAQ explained this behavior--everything implies that the numbering is
>with respect to the source tree, not, for example, the current node list
>as for position().

Yes, you are correct ... there is no "context" for <xsl:number/> other than 
the use of the from= attribute that limits context, which you are not using.

...................... Ken


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