counter, counter-increment with LotusXSL

Are the counter and counter-increment  XSL elements not supported anymore.
I'm using the lotusXSL_0_19_2 version and they don't appear to be working.
I know there are work arounds to the counter, but I need a counter based on
a sorted result tree.  I'm trying to alternate background color for rows,
and my original version of XSL code is formatting the background color
based on where the node exists in the physical document (instead of where
it exists once everything is sorted).

Any ideas???


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