Re: [xsl] Using COUNT to create unique anchors

["Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/27/06, Austin, Darrel <Darrel.Austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm recursively going through my XML file to create a table of contents
> for a document. I want to be able to link each item on the TOC to the
> proper anchor later on the page.

[snip]

> The 'easy' solution would be for me to just store the unique ID stored
> in the database for each node within the XML itself, but I was wondering
> if there was a solution on the XSL side of things before I recreate the
> XML files.

Just use generate-id() - it's guaranteed to return the same value for
the same node for a single transformation run.

So when you pass over your data to create your index, and then when
you pass over it a second time to do the actual transform, as long as
its all done as part of a single transform you can use generate-id()

cheers
andrew