Re: [xsl] Keeping a running total?

[Steve <subsume@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm... I was thinking there may be some kind of hack involving
sum(beginning->current factory).

Can you add to what you've said? About how would that go in terms of XSL?

-Steve

On 7/10/06, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You're out of luck with for-each, because conceptually at least it processes
> all the factories in parallel. So you can't accumulate data as you go.
> Instead for this kind of problem you need recursion: to a process a list of
> factories, process the first factory, then process the rest of the factories
> by a recursive call, passing any necessary data (such as your "running
> total") as a parameter.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/