Thanks Mitch, that helps a lot .


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mitch C. Amiano" <Mitch.Amiano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 9:26 AM
Subject: Re:  for loop


> There is no direct expression for this, but you can accomplish
> the same thing using a recursive template. 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet 
>    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>    version="1.0"
> >
> <xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/>
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>  <xsl:call-template name="loop">
>   <xsl:with-param name="repeat" select="number(10)"/>
>  </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template name="loop">
>  <xsl:param name="repeat">0</xsl:param>
>  <xsl:if test="number($repeat) >= 1">
> Loop Iteration # <xsl:value-of select="$repeat"/>
>   <xsl:call-template name="loop">
>    <xsl:with-param name="repeat" select="$repeat - 1"/>
>   </xsl:call-template>
>  </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> You may want to consider why you want a loop though. 
> Often, there is a structure in your input that can be
> used to drive the output, and for that you just need 
> an XPath. 
> 
> Charly wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > does anyone knows how to make a loop for in xsl.
> > Something more like .
> > 
> >    <xsl:loop name="i" from="1" to="10" step="1">
> >       $i
> >    </xsl:loop>
> > 
> > Please help
> > 
> >  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> 
> --
> Mitch.Amiano (@alcatel.com)
> SW Development Engineer in C++/Java/Perl/TCL/SQL/XML/XSLT/XPath
> Advance Design Process Group, Raleigh Engineering Services     Alcatel
> USA
> 
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