Hi David,
I should have stressed that not only do I want to ouput all the
elements using recursion but I also want, effectively to know how
many ancestors they each have in order to structure the output so it
makes clear the hierarchical structure of the data.
You can do that in two ways. You can count the number of ancestors of
the <item> element that you're on using:
count(ancestor::item)
Alternatively, you can pass a parameter into the template, adding one
on each recursion, as in:
<xsl:template match="item">
<xsl:param name="ancestors" select="0" />
...
<xsl:apply-templates>
<xsl:with-param name="ancestors" select="$ancestors + 1" />
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>
If you're dealing with very deep hierarchies, using a parameter will
probably be speedier.
Cheers,
Jeni
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