RE: [xsl] My Difficult counting problem

["Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter dot Hunsberger at stjude dot org>]

> I need some help doing the following, I can't seem to figure out how to do
> this in XSL
> 
> I need to convert something like this
> <myElement>
>    <foo name="foobar1"/>
>    <foo name="foobar2"/>
>    <foo name="foobar1"/>
>    <foo name="foobar3"/>
>    <foo name="foobar1"/>
>    <foo name="foobar1"/>
>    <foo name="foobar3"/>
> </myElement>
> 
> and the output after running it through the XSL would be
> 
> numberOccurrences[] = {1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 4, 2};

<xsl:template match="myElement">
	numberOccurances[] = {
	<xsl:for-each select="foo">
		<xsl:value-of select="count(preceding-sibling::*[@name =
current()/@name])+1"/>
		<xsl:if test="position() &lt; last()">, </xsl:if>
	</xsl:for-each>
	};
</xsl:template>

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