RE: [xsl] xsl:variable

["Andrew Welch" <AWelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> i would like to declare a variable counter in my xsl file and to
> incremente it whenever i have the occurence toto in my XML file.
> toto is a complextype whose maxOccurs="unbounded" in the schema
> declaration.

Of course you can't reassign a variable, usually you would use something like:

count(preceding::toto|.)

to obtain how many <toto>'s had been processed.

So, for this source xml:

<test>
    <toto>
      <titi/>
      <tata/>
    </toto>
    <toto>
     <titi>hello</titi>
      <tata>bye</tata>
    </toto>
</test>

you could use:

<xsl:template match="titi">
  <xsl:value-of select="count(parent::toto/preceding-sibling::toto|.)"/>
</xsl:template>

(more efficient than preceeding::* axis)

cheers
andrew


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