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Re: Node position and numbering.

2005-05-05 10:43:23
Hi,

I tried your above example with the match="service" followed by
match="step" and got the desired output? Give this a try maybe it'll
help:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:template match="service">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="step"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="step">
        <xsl:value-of select="concat(position(), '. ', 
normalize-space(text()))"/><br/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

output:

1. Go to File menu
2. Select Print
3. Click Print

Sounds like you've tried this already, I know I've had this problem
before and it has to do with whitespace nodes, either or give it a
shot.

On 5/5/05, c p <bugs75il(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hello all,

I have following XML:
-----------------------------------------

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<service>
    <title>Printing the Page</title>
    <somenode>node content might go here.</somenode>
    <step>Go to File menu</step>
    <step>Select Print</step>
    <step>Click Print</step>
    <somenode>you are all done.</somenode>
</service>

-----------------------------------------
As you can see the XML has a <service> node with a
whole bunch of other child nodes.  Out of all the
child nodes, I am interested in getting the position
for <step> nodes only.  Its pretty simple but there's
a twist.  In the example above if I did
<xsl:apply-templates match="service"/>  and then for
each child node I did a position() then it would give
me numbers 2,4,and 5 for the <step> nodes.  However
thats not what I want.  I want it to give me numbers
1,2,3 for the <step> nodes.  The way I can get that is
by doing <xsl:apply-templates match="service/step"/>,
unfortunately due to the complexity of my XSL and XML
structure I cannot do that.  Is there a way to achieve
this so I can get an output that will look like this:

---------------------------------------------
1. Go to File menu
2. Select Print
3. Click Print
---------------------------------------------

Note:  Its not always guaranteed that the first <step>
node will start after <title> node or any other node.
It could be random.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thx,
C

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