Re: QUESTION about xsl:number

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

At 00/05/04 13:21 -0700, Kelvin Zheng wrote:
> My question is how to number its child nodes as:
>
>
>         XML
>
>         1. Definition
>           1.1 XML
>           1.2 XSL
>
>         2. Implementation
>
> I have tried <xsl:number level="multiple" format="1. " />, but the document
> looks like:
>
>         XML
>
>         1. Definition
>           1. XML
>           2. XSL
>
>         2. Implementation

Correct ... because you haven't told it what needs to be counted ... as a 
result it is only counting the current element.

The example below (not accommodating white space) illustrates how using a 
union in the pattern gives the processor a list of things to count.

I hope this helps.

.......... Ken


T:\ftemp>type test2.xml
<document>

        <section type="title" shownumber="no">
        XML sample
        </section>
        <section type="index" shownumber="yes">
        Definition
                <definition>
                XML
                </definition>
                <definition>
                XSL
                </definition>
        </section>
        <section type="index" shownumber="yes">
        Implementation
        </section>

</document>

T:\ftemp>type test2.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="/">                         <!--root rule-->
  <xsl:apply-templates select="//section"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="section">
  <xsl:if test="@shownumber='yes'">
    <xsl:number count="section[@shownumber='yes']"/>
  </xsl:if>
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="definition">
  <xsl:number count="section[@shownumber='yes']
                    |definition"
              level="multiple" format="1."/>
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>xt test2.xml test2.xsl

        XML sample
        1
        Definition
                1.1.
                XML

                1.2.
                XSL

        2
        Implementation


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