xml-dev - Re: Question about xsl:number

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 00/05/03 18:52 -0700, Kelvin Zheng wrote:
>New to this list.  I am currently working on a style sheet to display a XML
>document with numbering list.

XSL, XSLT and XPath questions would be better posted to the following list:

   http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

There are a number of subscribers who would enthusiastically respond to 
such questions.

>For a simple numbering, xsl:number works perfectly. But in our case,  we
>want to skip some of the sibling nodes depends on the type attribute of the
>node.

You can define the count= attribute to be any pattern, such as:

     <xsl:number count="section[@shownumber='yes']"/>

Your example is recreated below (without doing the tweaking regarding 
whitespace that I will leave as an exercise for you).

I hope this helps.

.............. Ken

T:\ftemp>type test.xml
<document>

         <section type="title" shownumber="no">
         XML sample
         </section>
         <section type="index" shownumber="yes">
         Definition
         </section>
         <section type="index" shownumber="yes">
         Implementation
         </section>

</document>
T:\ftemp>type test.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                 version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="/">                         <!--root rule-->
   <xsl:apply-templates select="//section"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="section">
   <xsl:if test="@shownumber='yes'">
     <xsl:number count="section[@shownumber='yes']"/>
   </xsl:if>
   <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>xt test.xml test.xsl

         XML sample
         1
         Definition
         2
         Implementation

T:\ftemp>


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