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RE: [xsl] Incrementing position in the tree midstream (Part 2)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Durston, Andrew (AGRE)
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Hi,

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> I am basically getting confused in how to count the occurances
> down the chain of siblings (all objecttexts under all objects
> under test-plan).
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What exactly do you need?
If, while processing an objecttext node (the objecttext matching template or
an encompassing xsl:for-each) you need the number of objecttexts having a
certain content ('.0-1.0'), that would be

count(ancestor::test-plan/object/objecttext[.='.0-1.0'])

for the number of all preceding- or following objecttexts in the document,
this would become

count(preceding::objecttext[.='.0-1.0'])
count(following::objecttext[.='.0-1.0'])

The *-sibling axes return only nodes from the same object parent (my guess
is that this is one of the things causing your confusion?)

xsl:number offers a very interesting and highly configurable alternative...

For all objecttext nodes in the document, no matter what level
<xsl:number count="objecttext[.='.0-1.0']"
            format="1. " level="any" />

For all objecttext nodes, starting from the current test-plan (if there are
more than one in the document)
<xsl:number count="objecttext[.='.0-1.0']"
            from="test-plan"
            format="1. " level="any" />

This should rid you of having to do the counting yourself (in case there are
more than one test-plan in your source document, the XPath needed to feed to
count() will obviously become more complicated..)


Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Andreas

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