Re: newbie question, nesting level query

[Stephen Perkins <stephenp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Prescod wrote:
 
> > A simple, but (for today) beyond my impatient-newbie grasp question:
> >
> > A posted example stylesheet for html
> > (http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/examples/style/html.sty.txt) has a
> > procedure call
> >
> > (nesting-level "ol")
> 
> This stylesheet is old and is based on an old draft of DSSSL, not the
> final product.
> 
>  Paul Prescod
> 


Thanks for the tip. I solved this with:

; to return nesting level as integer
(define nesting-level
        (lambda (nest-level-element)
                (length (hierarchical-number-recursive
nest-level-element)
        )
))




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