RE: [xsl] Numbering and adding commas

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your code is:

<xsl:for-each select="answer">
    <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>, <xsl:text/>
    </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

which means

for each answer, if it is not the last answer, process the answer and then
output a comma.

Clearly you want

for each answer, process the answer, and if it is not the last, output a
comma.

Just move the apply-templates out of the conditional.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Ofner [mailto:tofner@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 10 March 2006 23:05
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Numbering and adding commas
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have been hitting my head against this problem for several
> days. I was
> determined to figure it out on my own with the various resources now
> available. But no love.
>
> I have questions with multiple answer tagged, such as this one:
>
>   <topic>Finding Nouns</topic>
> <item> 1. At one <answer>time</answer> <answer>dinosaurs</answer> were
> <answer>rulers</answer> of the <answer>earth</answer>.</item>
>
> Some items have only one answer tagged:
>
> <item> 2. <answer>Most</answer> of the flags before then were actually
> poles</item>
>
> I am trying to list the answers for each item after the
> number. But then I
> am also trying to add a comma after all but the last item in
> the list, like
> this:
>
> 1.    time, dinosaurs, rulers, earth
>
> Here is relevant part of my stylesheet:
>
>
>   <xsl:template match="item">
>     <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
>     <xsl:text>&#9;</xsl:text>
>     <xsl:number count="item" level="any" from="topic"
> format="1.&#9;"/>
>     <xsl:for-each select="answer | ansus | ansdus | embedded |
> attribute::answer">
>        <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>, <xsl:text/>
>     </xsl:if>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> This current snippet produces the output below, in which the
> last answer has
> been cut completely.
>
> Finding Nouns
>
>     1.    time, dinosaurs, rulers,
>
> I love reading the list. Please excuse my newbie malformed code.
>
> Terry