Subject: not resetting counters in a document tree
From: Michel Goossens <Michel.Goossens@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:10:53 +0200 (METDST)
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Using the previous version of the XSL standard I could organize my
counters so that some were numbered automatically using the built-in
procedures using <xsl:number>, that number nodes in the result tree
and others were under my own control using <xsl:counter> and
<xsl:counter-increment>. However, counters have disappeared from the new
spec, so that I can only (as far as I can see) rely on numbering nodes in
the result tree starting at a given parent node. However, consider the
following situation (which occurs quite often in books), where I have
different parts and chapters, but the chapters are numbered sequentially
independently of the parts where they occur, e.g.
Part I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Part II
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
etc.
I looked in vain for a way to achieve this using the following XML file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
<document>
<part>
<stitle>Part I</stitle>
<chapter id="Ch1">
<stitle>First chapter</stitle>
</chapter>
<chapter id="Ch2">
<stitle>Second chapter</stitle>
</chapter>
<chapter id="Ch3">
<stitle>Third chapter</stitle>
</chapter>
</part>
<part>
<stitle>Part II</stitle>
<chapter id="Ch4">
<stitle>Fourth chapter</stitle>
</chapter>
<chapter id="Ch5">
<stitle>Fifth chapter</stitle>
</chapter>
<chapter id="Ch6">
<stitle>Sixth chapter</stitle>
</chapter>
</part>
</document>
And XSL stylesheet
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"
result-ns="">
<xsl:template match="part|chapter">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="chapter/stitle">
<xsl:element name="H1">
<A NAME="{../@id}">
<xsl:number level="multi"
count="chapter"
format="1. "/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</A>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
But, as expected, in the generated output below, the chapter counters are
reset when the new part starts.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
Part I
<H1><A NAME="Ch1">1. First chapter</A></H1>
<H1><A NAME="Ch2">2. Second chapter</A></H1>
<H1><A NAME="Ch3">3. Third chapter</A></H1>
Part II
<H1><A NAME="Ch4">1. Fourth chapter</A></H1>
<H1><A NAME="Ch5">2. Fifth chapter</A></H1>
<H1><A NAME="Ch6">3. Sixth chapter</A></H1>
Is there a way of rewriting the style sheet so that this does not happen?
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