Re: [xsl] numbering/count()

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/20/05, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Wendell explained that in the message that you quoted.
>
>   <xsl:function name="bib:footcite" as="xs:string">
>     <xsl:param name="footciteable" as="element()"/>
>     <xsl:number level="any" select="$footciteable"/>
>   </xsl:function>
>
> he said
>
>   In a function, I believe this means passing in your context node as a
>   parameter and changing context to it explicitly before invoking
xsl:number.
>   Apart from that (note this is different from a named template, which
keeps
>   the context from which it's called), I don't see why it shouldn't work.
And
>   it's easy enough to test.

Well I'm obviously not understanding something about context switching
here then, because this yields the same result as my previous example:

  <xsl:function name="bib:footcite" as="xs:string">
    <xsl:param name="footciteable" as="element()"/>
    <xsl:for-each select="$footciteable">
      <xsl:number level="any" select="."/>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:function>

Bruce