The XPath 2.0 draft has a "for" construct. Sometimes this will do what you
want (for simple things), and sometimes you will still need recursive template or
function calls.
Mukul Gandhi wrote:
The XSLs (by Jarno and by -- Americo) are brilliant..
I was trying to solve the problem, but could'nt come
up with the solution soon..
Though the issue about incrementing the variables has
been discussed a lot on this list, I feel if there is
a feature where some sort of variable incrmenting is
possible in XSLT, it will save lot of programming
hours producing a trivial thing as generating serial
nos. I am not suggesting to deviate from the viewpoint
that XSLT should be a functional language.
...
The XSLT 2.0 spec is in draft stage. If appropriate,
these features can be thought to be added. Probably
more knowledgeable persons on this list -- M. Kay,
Dimitre, David Carlisle, Dave Pawson, Wendell, Jeni,
Jarno, Americo.. can comment on the appropriateness of
this idea ;)
Regards,
Mukul
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