Re: [xsl] Numbering new nodes using consecutive integers

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2009-03-27 19:07 +0100, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> Wendell Piez schrieb:
> > In general, I agree that this isn't really a job for xsl:number, whose
> > primary application is to generate numbers relative to the source
> > tree, not the result.
>
> Yes, but how would you *ever* generate numbers relative to the result ?!

Only by painstakingly recreating the algorithms that generate the 
result, because the result tree cannot be accessed by XPath expressions.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . .  Ken

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