Thanks to everyone for your feedback on this, this is very helpful!
David Gadd
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Bryant [mailto:jay(_at_)bryantcs(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:05 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] Using <xsl:for-each> and position() to increase
indent in each iteration (includes XSLT 2.0 solution)
Hi, David,
I've done similar things in FO thus:
<fo:block text-indent="{(position() - 1 ) *
.25}in"><xsl:apply-templates/></fo:block>
If you're not set on spaces for indentation, you could try:
<p style="text-indent: {(position() -1) * .25}in"><xsl:apply-templates/></p>
or (if you're defining styles somewhere):
<p class="indent{(position() -1)}"><xsl:apply-templates/></p>
If you are set on spaces, Aron's recursive template works for XSLT 1.0+.
If you can do XSLT 2.0, you can use the "x to y" feature of for-each to get
the spaces, thus:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="x">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:for-each select="y">
<p>
<xsl:if test="position() > 1">
<xsl:for-each select="1 to (position() -
1)">   </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</p>
</xsl:for-each>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Tested with Saxon 8.
Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gadd" <David(_dot_)Gadd(_at_)businessobjects(_dot_)com>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 6:47 PM
Subject: [xsl] Using <xsl:for-each> and position() to increase indent in
each iteration
Hi,
I'm new to the list and fairly new to XSL.
I am wanting to use the position() function to increase the indent in an
<xsl:for-each> iteration by 3 spaces, using the following logic, but
preferably without using a case statement:
position() == 1 > generate ""
position() == 2 > generate " "
position() == 3 > generate " "
position() == 4 > generate
" "
etc
etc
As a separate issue, when I use in my xsl template it seems to fail
(the disappears).
By googling I found a suggestion to use   instead.
Is there a reason why is not working?
Thanks very much,
David Gadd
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