RE: [xsl] recursivity and param

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Xavier Boully" <xavier.boully@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [xsl] recursivity and param
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:32:35 +0200
>
> I would like to use recursivity through the source document with XSLT 1.0
> and no extension.
>
> As far as I understood, when I am at a node level, I have a context that I
> can pass to children level using with-param.
> But what I would like to obtain is to catch things from children treatment
> to influence the context of the node level: when I pass context to a 
> certain
> child I would like to take in account things that happened before while
> processing children I met before (in order of source document for example).
>
> Reading again that question make me think that it is maybe not clear 
> enough.
> Let's try an example.
> - Suppose that in source tree we have some <to-copy-element /> elements
> - Suppose that I just want my XSLTransformation to copy to the result tree
> the <to-copy-element /> from the source tree.
> - Suppose that I add a condition that I must not copy more than 10
> <to-copy-element />. In other words I want to copy only the first (in order
> of source document) 10 <to-copy-element /> elements or all the
> <to-copy-element /> elements if count(//to-copy-element)<11.
>
> I think (but this is maybe a wrong hypothesis) that at a given node level, 
> I
> have to pass to a child information about the number of copies done with
> children processed before.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Xavier

Is there any reason you can't select using a position predicate?
xsl:apply-templates select="to-copy-elements[position() < 11]"...

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Joe