RE: [xsl] can I give xsl:number a starting position?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Jeff,

At 04:33 AM 9/4/2002, you wrote:
> > Basically, my problem is that I have an XML document that's
> > been chunked up into smaller pieces. I need to convert each
> > of those pieces to HTML separately, with the correct section
> > numbers.
Since you're starting with files that have already been chunked, you can't 
effectively use xsl:number to get your numbers, so you have to manage it 
some other way. (Neither will position() or counting certain kinds of 
ancestors be much use, since the document being transformed is not the 
"document" the numbering needs to be in reference to.)

An alternative, if this is thinkable, is to run the transform over the 
unchunked document, parameterizing which chunk is to be processed for each 
run. Since the entire document is available to the transform, the numbering 
can be in reference to the whole.

An alternative, if your chunking routine is also XSLT (or sometimes even if 
not) is to provide the numbering in that transformation, and then just pass 
it through the second step.

Cheers,
Wendell



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