position() of the parent

["Alexandru-Ionut Albu" <albu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I am new to XML and I am trying to write an XSL sheet that "flattens" the source XML tree, but preserves information about child-parent relationships. For example:

<mynode name="xxx">
    <mynode name="yyy">
        <mynode name="zzz">
        </mynode>
    </mynode>
</mynode>

should become

<mynode name="xxx" id="1" parentid=""/>
<mynode name="yyy" id="2" parentid="1"/>
<mynode name="zzz" id="3" parentid="2"/>

I don't really care what the data type of the id's is.

I've tried something like:

<xsl:template match="mynode">
    <mynode name="{@name}">
    <xsl:attribute name="id">
         <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
    </xsl:attribute>
    </mynode>
</xsl:template>

but I don't know how to apply the position() function to the parent node.


Thank you,
Alex



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