Re: [xsl] Numbering new nodes using consecutive integers

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

At 02:07 PM 3/27/2009, you wrote:
> > In general, I agree that this isn't really a job for xsl:number, whose
> > primary application is to generate numbers relative to the source
> > tree, not the result.
>
> Yes, but how would you *ever* generate numbers relative to the result ?!

In one pass? By doing it the way David tried and Ken (may have) 
succeeded: reflecting the grouping/ordering logic directly in XPath 
(or XSLT functions and/or, ouch, template calls).

In other words, not by counting anything in the result, but rather by 
expressing algorithmically the number that will be correct for the 
thing when it is made for you, in the usual 
in-XSLT-everything-happens-at-once way of thinking.

(FWIW, the only reason I say Ken "may have" succeeded is that, knife 
in hand for my Gordian method, I didn't read into his solution deeply 
enough to validate it for myself.)

Cheers,
Wendell



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