<xsl:number> has no "context". Calling <xsl:number> does not increment
a counter.
Rather, <xsl:number> reports a number based on the position of the
current node in the source tree. IE, since <extra> is the first node in
your input XML with the name "extra", it gets the number 1.
It sounds like you want the position of the <insert> node. And you want
to number both <name> nodes and <insert> nodes, so you would do
<xsl:number count="*"/>. To avoid counting the <extra> nodes you would
do <xsl:number count="*[name()!='extra']"/>. However, in your example
the extra nodes don't have the same parent as the <name> nodes, so this
isn't an issue.
See also http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/Output/ (look up "number").
Bill
Denis Haskin wrote:
I sincerely apologize if this is a FAQ; I'm unable to find an answer
to this in the archives nor the FAQ (although there are a couple of
FAQ entries that are similar to this and imply to me that what I'm
doing should work).
I am using xsl:key and select="key()" to include part of my input tree
at another place during processing. This works fine, but the problem
is I'm trying to using xsl:number as well and I can't prevent
xsl:number from resetting (apparently) its context while processing
the referred-to nodes. (Apologies if my terminology is not correct;
I'm back to XSL after having not used it much in the last year-plus.)
Here's a *very* simplified example. Here's my input XML:
<test>
<extra myid="extraid"><name>Extra item</name></extra>
<item>
<name>Item one</name>
<name>Item two</name>
<name>Item three</name>
<insert ref="extraid"/>
</item>
</test>
and I'm processing it with this XSL:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:key name="testkey" match="extra" use="@myid"/>
<xsl:template match="insert">
<xsl:variable name="d" select="key('testkey',@ref)"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$d" mode="include"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="name">
<xsl:number/> - <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="extra" mode="include">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="extra"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
what I'm getting for output is this:
1 - Item one
2 - Item two
3 - Item three
1 - Extra item
and what I want is:
1 - Item one
2 - Item two
3 - Item three
4 - Extra item
Is this possible? I've messed a bunch with level, from, count, etc
without any luck. I feel like this should be a no-brainer...
Much thanks --
dwh
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