Re: Number of node in list from stylesheet

[Jeni Tennison <Jeni dot Tennison at epistemics dot co dot uk>]

Jürgen,

>>Within the stylesheet, I needed to convert a month's name into a month
>>number, so January = 01, May = 05 and so on.  So I defined the months in
>>order within the stylesheet itself:
>
>Here's a working solution, define this within <xsl:stylesheet> (i.e. on the 
>top level):
>
>  <xsl:variable name="months">
>    <month name="January">01</month>
[snip]
>
>Later, in a template (assuming the month name is in $month):
>
>  <xsl:value-of select="$months[@name=$month]"/>

I hadn't thought about putting the months in a variable like that.  I don't
understand how you got this to work because listing the months within a
variable as you've done turns them into a result tree fragment, which can't
then be referenced into by a pattern (proof of the pudding - when I tried
it in SAXON, it objected).

You're also numbering them by hand, which is what I wanted to get away from.

However, I'm pretty sure I could use your method and generate a number
using position() or xsl:number, if I was happy using the node-set
extensions, so thank you.

Cheers,

Jeni

Dr Jeni Tennison
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