me> > However this mechanism isn't possible in XSL 1.0
me>
me> why not?
something like the following.
You'd need to fine tune the set of characters made safe (this makes
spaces into _ and discards !#,( but lets anything else through, and
doesn't take care to avoid digits etc being at the front of the id
but all those are probably fixable in practice.
David
<x>
<section><title>Introduction with spaces!</title>...</section>
...
<section id="examples"><title>Examples</title>...</section>
<section><title>Examples</title>...</section>
...
<section><title>Introduction with spaces!</title>...</section>
<section id="foo"><title>og jhl</title>...</section>
<section><title>og jhl</title>...</section>
<section><title>og jhl</title>...</section>
...
</x>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:key name="noid" match="section[not(@id)]" use="translate(title,'
!#,()','_')"/>
<xsl:template match="section[not(@id)]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:variable name="id" select="translate(title,' !#._,()','_')"/>
<xsl:variable name="thisnode" select="generate-id()"/>
<xsl:attribute name="id">
<xsl:value-of select="$id"/>
<xsl:for-each select="key('noid',$id)">
<xsl:if test="position()!=1 and generate-id(.)=$thisnode">
<xsl:text>-</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
$ saxon ids.xml ids.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><x>
<section id="Introduction_with_spaces"><title>Introduction with
spaces!</title>...</section>
...
<section id="examples"><title>Examples</title>...</section>
<section id="Examples"><title>Examples</title>...</section>
...
<section id="Introduction_with_spaces-2"><title>Introduction with
spaces!</title>...</section>
<section id="foo"><title>og jhl</title>...</section>
<section id="og_jhl"><title>og jhl</title>...</section>
<section id="og_jhl-2"><title>og jhl</title>...</section>
...
</x>
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