Position() question

If I have some data:

<head>
	<text> blah blah </text>
	<text> etc </text>
	<text> yadda yadda </text>
</head>

And I want to generate this output:

<head>
	<item>
		<label>1</label>
		<text> blah blah </text>
	</item>
	<item>
		<label>2</label>
		<text> etc </text>
	</item>
	<item>
		<label>3</label>
		<text> yadda yadda </text>
	</item>
</head>

Obviously I can do this:

<xsl:template match="text">
	<item>
		<label>
			<xsl:value-of select="position()" />
		</label>
		<text>
			<xsl:value-of select="." />
		</text>
	</item>
</xsl:template>

, but only if I strip whitespace so that position() doesn't pick it up
whitespace nodes.
How can I preserve whitespace and still output the correct label number,
without resorting to: <xsl:value-of select="count(preceding-sibling::text +
1)" /> ?

Thanks,
M@
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