Re: [xsl] xsl:number

[Markus Spath <mspath at arcor dot de>]

Nestel, Frank ISC 6 wrote:


> We need to generate a fairly reshuffled version of
> that as output (and with lots of layout, btw), i.e.
> 
> 	<doc>
> 		<chap id="m">1. ..</chap>
> 		<chap id="2">2. ..</chap>
> 		<chap id="3">3. ..</chap>
> 		..
> 		<chap id="4">(n-1). ..</chap>
> 		<chap id="1">n. ..</chap>
> 	<doc>
> 
> The reshuffling depends on complex criteria and is content 
> based. What we'd like to have is a monotone increasing number
> for the output chapters, with hierarchical numbers for subchapters
> (not depicted above). It seems like xsl:number is not an 
> appropriate tool for that?!


did you try  position() ?


> 
> The only solutions I can think of are either based on feeding
> the output of one stylesheet into another one or on using xslt1.1,
> i.e. builing an ordered nodeset first and processing this a 
> second time, which is essentially using two stylesheets.



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