RE: [xsl] Dealing without global counters

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> It occured to me that a slightly more efficient way to get 
> the textual value of of a number would be similar to what 
> Dimitre mentioned earlier...
> 
> Adding this to the top of your stylesheet
> <xsl:stylesheet
>  version="1.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>  xmlns:textValue="my::textValue"  exclude-result-prefixes="textValue"
> >
> 
>  <textValue:textValueofNumber>
>   <number value="1">First</number>
>   <number value="2">Second</number>
>   <number value="3">Third</number>
>   <number value="4">Fourth</number>
>   <number value="5">Fifth</number>
>   <number value="6">Sixth</number>
>   <number value="7">Seventh</number>  </textValue:textValueofNumber>
> 

In the latest XSLT 2.0 draft, and with Saxon 7.8, you can get the this
result using

<xsl:number value="$x" format="Ww" ordinal="yes" lang="en"/>

Michael Kay


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