Re: position of non actual element

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:48:56AM +0100, Enke Michael wrote:
> Matt Gushee wrote:
> > ...
> > 5 <xsl:template match="value">
> > 6   <xsl:number count="value" from="/data"/>
> > 7 </xsl:template>
> > ...
> 
> Hi Matt,
> this is very interesting. It works fine.
> But is this a nonstandard feature?
> In my book "XML in a nutshell" (O'Reilly)
> there is nothing written about attributes "count" and "from"
> for xsl:number

Are you sure? If so, that's very poor work on the part of O'Reilly.
I'm surprised.

> Probably there are a lot of other useful features.
> Where can I find this and more?

Well, of course the most authoritative reference is the XSLT spec
itself. This particular feature is documented at

  http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#number

But if you don't like reading specs (and who can blame you?), the
next best thing is Michael Kay's book, _The XSLT Programmer's
Reference_ -- big red book published by Wrox Press. It's thorough,
accurate, and has lots of good usage examples.
-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, Colorado, USA
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http://www.havenrock.com/

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