Re: [xsl] FW: Linear counting problem in nested loop

Subject: Re: [xsl] FW: Linear counting problem in nested loop
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:51:10 -0500
At 2004-01-25 10:29 +0000, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
Please try the following XSL template -

<xsl:template match="/MENU">
  <xsl:for-each select=".//*">
   <xsl:if test="text()">
     <xsl:value-of select="position() div 2"/> for
<xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
   </xsl:if>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

Using position() is dependent on the way the information is processed by your stylesheet, not on where information is found in the source node tree. The above solution produces unwanted reports for interspersed text() nodes.


I supplied and demonstrated two one-line solutions to this problem in the following post:

http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200401/msg00884.html

Those solutions involved the count() function and the <xsl:number/> instruction that return results based solely on the source node tree and independent of how the information in the tree is processed.

I hope this helps.

........................ Ken

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