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document function and counting
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- Subject: [xsl] document function and counting
- From: Christine Donica <mizar at rice dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:00:49 -0500 (CDT)
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I am trying to use the document function to pull in the result trees of
other documents and then I want to number things across the entire new
document in one pass.
For example say I have a file called master.xml which contains uri's to
other documents called foo1.xml and foo2.xml. Say foo1.xml and foo2.xml
each contain a list of <item> tags.
I want the output of the transformation to be a document which contains
all of the <item>s of both foo1.xml and foo2.xml AND I want to number them
continuously from the top to the bottom. I want to do this in one pass of
a stylesheet.
I can pull foo1.xml and foo2.xml into the output file using document().
Also, if all of the items are already in the same document I can easily
number them using the <xsl:number> tag. However, it is not possible to do
both in the same run of the stylesheet because xsl:number does not seem to
have access to the elements in main.xml and either foo1.xml or foo2.xml at
the same time. So I can reach my goal if I write two stylesheets and run
them one after each other, but I don't want to do that.
Alternatively, I have tried using parameters to pass a number into the
item template. However, I don't know how to get this information from the
point where the template matches an <item> in foo1.xml to a point where it
matches <item> in foo2.xml. That is, I cannot pass parameters up the
tree.
Could someone please explain how I should do this? Or, is it even
possible?
Thank you so much for your time.
Sarah Coppin
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