Re: [xsl] A Counter Variable in XSLT?

[Manu KY <manu_kry@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,
please articulate your objective clearly :
what i can glean from the previous mails and this one is that you want to 
select all nodes which have a col attribute and then display them as an 
incremented serial number followed by the content of the attribute and the 
content of the node which matched.

Manu

>    What I want to do:
>
>    My stylesheet consists of one template rule.  When there is a
>    match, I want a line in the output  to say, for example, "Match #
>    123:", followed by relevant text.  Since I don't know ahead of
>    time how many matches there will be in the source document,
>    somehow the stylesheet needs to keep a count.  Something like:
>
>    <?xml version="1.0"?>
>    <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>      <xsl:output method="text"/>
>      <xsl:template match="/*">
>            <xsl:if test="@col">
>         Match # n : <!-- n is the nth match, the thing that needs to
>    be incremented -->
>         Collection: "<xsl:value-of select="@col"/>"
>         Content: <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>         </xsl:if>
>      </xsl:template>
>    </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> how can n ever be anything other than 1 in this example.
> you are matching on /* and there is always exactly one
> element which is a child of the root of a well formed XML document.
> So it seems like n is 1 if that element has a col attribute and 0
> otherwise, or your example was not representative of what you intended.
>
> David
>
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