Hi David,
That worked just fine.
I misunderstood the nature of XSLT variables and was under the impression
that once initialized their value could not be changed. Clearly, I need to
re-read that section of the book.
I am actually generating a series of id's and need the value of the id to be
constant across files. My reading of gererate-id() was that the id could
change each time the file was processed. and that it was not recommended for
use in hyperlinks between different HTML files. (Michael's book on XSLT and
XPath).
Thanks,
Mark
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From: "David Carlisle" <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 2:35 PM
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Subject: Re: [xsl] Obtaining a specific context position()
the value returned by position() is unrelated to the position of the node
in the source tree, it is just a function of the context selected by the
current xpath (for example if you select a node with . then it has
position()=1 whevever it appears in the source)
It's not clear really what you want for the subdiv version, in your
posted sample it was the same value as in the heading, in which case you
can just save it in a variable and use it twice.
<xsl:variable name="h" select="position()"/>
<Heading>
<xsl:value-of select="$h"/> <!-- first call -->
</Heading>
<xsl:for-each-group select="current-group()"
group-by="SubDiv1">
<xsl:sort select="current-grouping-key()"
collation="{$sorting-collation}"/>
<SubDiv1>
<xsl:value-of select="$h"/> <!-- second call -->
David
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