At 2004-01-24 13:47 -0500, Wang, Dongzhi (ACF) wrote:
I have the following XML and want to implement such that I can have a
linear counter increment with each iteration of the parent for-each loop
and also the nested for-each loop.
This has just recently been discussed on this list and the use of counters
is a classical programming approach that cannot be employed easily (or at
all in some cases) in XSLT. XSLT provides facilities for hierarchical
processing of XML documents.
I supplied two one-line solutions to this problem in the following post:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200401/msg00884.html
I hope this helps.
.................... Ken
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<MENU>
<MenuItems>
<MenuLabel>Menu 1</MenuLabel>
<SubMenuItems>
<SubMenuLabel>Sub Menu 1</SubMenuLabel>
</SubMenuItems>
<SubMenuItems>
<SubMenuLabel>Sub Menu 11</SubMenuLabel>
</SubMenuItems>
</MenuItems>
<MenuItems>
<MenuLabel>Menu 2</MenuLabel>
<SubMenuItems>
<SubMenuLabel>Sub Menu 2</SubMenuLabel>
</SubMenuItems>
</MenuItems>
</MENU>
e.g. The counter should return as:
1 for Menu 1
2 for SubMenu 1
3 for SubMenu 11
4 for Menu 2
5 for SubMenu 2
So far, what I got is the counter breaks when it reaches the second
<MenuItems>, as it doesn't know about the subMenu from the first MenuItems
counts 3 already...
Thanks a lot!
Dongzhi
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