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Dominic VieiraSubject: Incremental line counts
Author: Dominic Vieira
Date: 04 Jul 2007 03:18 PM
Hi, I need to output a continous line number count for each detail record in a FLWOR block. From reading tech docs I understand global variables can only be assigned with a let statement but not incremented within FLWOR block. Is there a way that I can still output a row count?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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(Deleted User) Subject: Incremental line counts
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 06 Jul 2007 08:58 AM
Hi Dominic,
you can keep a count of the items in the FLWOR block by using the 'at' keyword:

for $i at $index in ....
return ....

The $index variable will be incremented at each iteration; if you have multiple 'for' loops you will have to multiply them to have the current index; if you have more complex FLWOR (with 'order by' or 'where' clauses) you will have to assign the result of the FLWOR to a sequence, and then use another FLWOR to iterate over that one.

Hope this helps,
Alberto
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Dominic VieiraSubject: Incremental line counts
Author: Dominic Vieira
Date: 10 Jul 2007 11:36 AM
Thanks Alberto.
What if I want to maintain a counter which may not be one to one with the number of detail records rather incremented based on a condition?

Thx.
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Minollo I.Subject: Incremental line counts
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 10 Jul 2007 01:53 PM
You would have most likely to use a recursive approach; XQuery being a side effect free language, you can't do variable assignments the way you would do in languages like Java or C/C++.
 
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