Re: [xsl] how to figure out what level a node is on

[George Cristian Bina <george@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

It is hard to understand your problem from your post, in general will 
help if you can add a sample to show your data, what XSLT code you 
already tried, if any, and the expected output.

I will take a guess and consider that you are interested in the level of 
imbrication of a given element inside the document. In that case you can 
just count the number of ancestors.

xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<menu>
    <item name="topMenu">
        <item name="subMenu">
            <item name="subSubMenu">
            </item>
        </item>
    </item>
</menu>

stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
version="1.0">
    <xsl:output method="text"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="//item"/>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="item">
        [<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>-<xsl:value-of 
select="count(ancestor::*)"/>]
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

result:

        [topMenu-1]

        [subMenu-2]

        [subSubMenu-3]

Hope that helps,
 George
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Morten Andersen wrote:
> I'm building a menu using xslt. Therefore I need to figure out what 
> level an item is on.
>
> How can I figure that out?
>
> thanks
>
>
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