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RE: generating numbers for anchor tabindex
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>, "'Simeon Walker'" <simeon at sbs dot bangor dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:58:03 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] generating numbers for anchor tabindex
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Jeni's solution will work, but using generate-id() is likely to be more
efficient. This generates an identifier for a particular node in the XML
source tree, which can often be used as a unique identifier for a node
in the HTML result tree.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com] On Behalf Of
> Jeni Tennison
> Sent: 06 October 2002 15:29
> To: Simeon Walker
> Cc: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] generating numbers for anchor tabindex
>
>
> Hi Simeon,
>
> > I am trying to think of a way to automatically generate numbers for
> > the tabindex property of html anchors. Since the xml that ends up
> > getting transformed into the anchor could be at any level
> within the
> > document I can't use a simple position().
>
> Try using xsl:number with level="any":
>
> <xsl:number level="any" />
>
> That will get you a number for the <a> element amongst *all*
> the other <a> elements in the document. If you want to narrow
> that down, you can use the 'count' attribute, to for example
> only count those <a> elements that have an 'id' attribute:
>
> <xsl:number level="any" count="a[@id]" />
>
> These are essentially the same as:
>
> <xsl:value-of select="count(preceding::a) + 1" />
>
> and:
>
> <xsl:value-of select="count(preceding::a[@id]) + 1" />
>
> respectively.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeni
>
> ---
> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/
>
>
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