Dimitre - it works perfectly! Too bad it's so slow though (too slow for
me to use). Please tell me, why should not this be equivalent?
<xsl:value-of select="count( (preceding::text() |
preceding::comment() | preceding::processing-instruction())[contains(.,
'
')]) + 1"/>
simon
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:36 AM, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
Here's the transformation, which does what was initially intended:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:variable name="vPrevText">
<x>
<xsl:copy-of
select="preceding::text()[contains(., '
')]"/>
<xsl:for-each select="preceding::comment()
[contains(., '
')]">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:for-each
select="preceding::processing-instruction()
[contains(., '
')]">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</x>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="vLineNo"
select="string-length($vPrevText) + 1
-
string-length(translate($vPrevText, '
', ''))"/>
<xsl:value-of select="concat(name(),
' : line ',
$vLineNo,
'
')"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node()[not(self::*)]"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
It also takes care of multiline comments / processing-instructions.
When applied on this source.xml:
<root>
<item>1</item>
<!-- -->
<!--
-->
<item>5</item>
<item>3</item>
<item>2</item>
<item>6</item>
<item>4</item>
</root>
The result is:
root : line 1
item : line 2
item : line 6
item : line 7
item : line 8
item : line 9
item : line 10
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