Re: [xsl] position of arbitrary parent

[Laurence O Garfield <lgarfiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, David Carlisle wrote:

>
> > which leaves me back with needing to know the
> > position() of the current <chapter> element.
>
>
> Probably you need to pass the chapter node as a parameter down to you
> html templates.
>
> <xsl:for-each select="chapter">
> 		<xsl:apply-templates select="$chapterTemplate/html" >
>                     <xsl:with-param name="c" select="."/>
>                 <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> and then declare c param in your templates that handle your html doc,
>
> David

That's what I was thinking, but that's going to get exceedinly ugly very
fast.

Would it be possible to use a globally defined variable that is edited
just prior to the apply-templates call?  Or are global variables
non-editable?


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