One more related question here - can you return a value in XSL? In this
example I want to return the number of records in the result set.
One problem is that the result set is a subset of the elements in the
XML file. I need to number on the subset, e.g.
XML:
<dictionary>
<word>dog is man's best friend</word>
<word>cat</word>
<word>dog and cats</word>
</dictionary>
If the user searches on "dog" I want the XSL to return:
<html><body>
<p> dog is man's best friend</p>
<p> dog and cats </p>
</body></html>
In other words - don't return the 2nd <word>.
I am thinking that the simplest solution is a two stage process. XML to
a result set XML and then XML to HTML, e.g.
<dictionary>
<word id=1>dog is man's best friend</word>
<word id=2>dog and cats</word>
</dictionary>
Then from ASP, I can pass in a 1 and a 20 and it will be very simple
code to only return records with id 1 to 20.
But I need XSL to tell ASP how many records in the result set so that I
don't put a "forward" button in the HTML code to go to the next 20
records.
Please excuse the simplistic examples, but I am a newbie.
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