Re: [xsl] xsl:number and conditional

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce,

Er, yes that *is* frustrating.

I can only making up the nicest sweetest demonstration package you can of 
the problem, so Mike and any aspiring XSLT 2.0 programmers can consider it 
in a single post. (But note, as I'm sure you are aware, that 
asking/expecting a single one of us to help is bad list etiquette!) Part of 
the difficulty is that these 2.0 features are still pretty much untried and 
untested outside the lab; nor can we exclude the possibility of a bug in 
the software.

I doubt that there are many readers of the list still following the problem 
... as the thread stretches back into time it gets harder and harder to 
follow. If you could encapsulate the usual trio of minimal source instance, 
expected result and stylesheet-in-progress, we could look at it afresh. In 
this case it'd be especially good if your stylesheet were a complete 
working instance cut down to just this problem, but with the entire range 
of templates and functions you need represented (i.e. take care represent 
the flow of control you want, not changing anything that changes a function 
or template's evaluation context, for example). In your case, I'm afraid 
that means also representing your ancillary source document(s), so there 
will be more than three pieces.

As for things that were working but work no longer -- this is inevitably 
because (a) you changed something, or (b) someone else did (by a software 
upgrade for example). We can't smoke this out unless we know what changed 
between then and now ... which is tough to guess (even for Jeni). Here too, 
bringing it back to square one is probably a good idea (as it is so often).

Cheers,
Wendell

At 04:03 PM 5/31/2005, you wrote:
> On 5/31/05, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Bruce,
> >
> > Did you try Michael's latest suggestion of
> >
> > count="db:footnote|db:citation[not(ancestor::db:footnote)]"
> >
> > ?
>
> Yes, but I got an undefined context error from Saxon, which has me a
> little confused (why do I get away with not defining the $footcite
> context for db:footnote, but not with the other part of the
> expression?), and frustrated!*
>
> > The expression above should provide for consecutive numbering of all
> > footnotes with all citations not themselves in footnotes, which is what you
> > want, isn't it?
>
> Yes.
>
> Bruce
>
> * frustration exacerbated by the fact that the first/subsequent key
> solution we finally worked out here last week is no longer working
> correctly!


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