xsl:number again

I have raised this before, but forgot about it until recently.

Consider the input:

<div><div><div><div><div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

and the XSLT:

  <xsl:template match="div">
    <xsl:number level="multiple" format="1.1.1.1.1.1.1"/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

and the result:

1.
1.1.
1.1.1.
1.1.1.1.
1.1.1.1.1.
1.1.1.1.1.1

The point being that I cannot reliably suppress the trailing "." on
numbers. What I want is numbers separated by "." punctuation, but with
nothing at the end. I *could* use  a choose statement to see how
deeply nested I am, and use a different format at each level, but
surely that should not be needed?

Saxon and XT do what I want, Oracle and libxslt don't.

<despair/>

sebastian


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