Re: running a for loop (eg.1 to 10) using XSL

[Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Bentley wrote:
> You are terribly lost. For-each is used to run a set of instructions over a
> result-tree-fragment 

What's that about leading the blind? :)

xsl:for-each encloses a template that is instantiated for a node-set (any
non-repeating set of nodes from a source tree), not a result tree
fragment (a hierarchical tree of nodes that has been created in the result
tree during processing).

> The only way to do what you are asking is to implement a recursive template

Or if you are confident of your data, you can iterate over the nodes whose
position() in the set is less than a certain number. This can be ugly but
I just worked out a scenario last night where it will actually never fail,
during HTML table building. I won't inflict it upon the list just yet ;)

   - Mike
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