Re: [xsl] ID Generation for XML Element

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Use xsl:number with no arguments

<xsl:template match="sect">
<xsl:variable name="n"><xsl:number/></xsl:variable>
<section id="sec{$n}">
     ....

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 29/10/2010 11:24, Ramkumar.V wrote:
> Hi, List
>
> I need to generate ID sequence for the below element 'sect'. How we 
> can do? could you please suggest anyone?
>
> Input:
> ====
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <root>
> <sect>
> <title>Section Head1</title>
> <para>Paragraph text</para>
> </sect>
> <para>Element para or some other any element and any no.of element may 
> come here</para>
> <sect>
> <title>Section Head2</title>
> <para>Paragraph text</para>
> </sect>
> <para>Element para or some other any element and any no.of element may 
> come here</para>
> <sect>
> <title>Section Head3</title>
> <para>Paragraph text</para>
> </sect>
> </root>
>
> XSLT tried
> ========
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
> version="2.0"> <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="us-ascii" 
> indent="no" omit-xml-declaration="no" include-content-type="no" />
> <xsl:template 
> match="root"><article><xsl:apply-templates/></article></xsl:template> 
> <xsl:template match="sect"><section id="sec{position() div 
> 2}"><xsl:apply-templates/></section></xsl:template>
> <xsl:template 
> match="sect/title"><title><xsl:apply-templates/></title></xsl:template>
> <xsl:template 
> match="para"><p><xsl:apply-templates/></p></xsl:template> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Current Output:
> ============
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?><article>
> <section id="sec1">
> <title>Section Head1</title>
> <p>Paragraph text</p>
> </section>
> <p>Element para or some other any element and any no.of element may 
> come here</p>
> <section id="sec3">
> <title>Section Head2</title>
> <p>Paragraph text</p>
> </section>
> <p>Element para or some other any element and any no.of element may 
> come here</p>
> <section id="sec5">
> <title>Section Head3</title>
> <p>Paragraph text</p>
> </section>
> </article>
> Expected Output
> ============
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?><article>
> <section id="sec1">
> <title>Section Head1</title>
> <p>Paragraph text</p>
> </section>
> <p>Element para or some other any element and any no.of element may 
> come here</p>
> <section id="sec2">
> <title>Section Head2</title>
> <p>Paragraph text</p>
> </section>
> <p>Element para or some other any element and any no.of element may 
> come here</p>
> <section id="sec3">
> <title>Section Head3</title>
> <p>Paragraph text</p>
> </section>
> </article>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ram Kumar V.
>
>
>
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