Re: key(), generate-id question

I'm resending this. Sorry if you got it twice, but I haven't got this mail
back from the list-server.
Thank you and appologize,
Endre.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Endre Magyari" <endre@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 9:29 AM
Subject: Re:  key(), generate-id question


> > You can't control how generate-id() works, but you could do something
> > like write a named template that will generate the ID. For example, you
> > could count the number of preceding elements that don't have an _ID
> > attribute and then add that value to the numeric part of the nearest
> > preceding element that *does* have an _ID attribute. All doable with
> > normal XSLT functions.
>
>
> Based on this, as far as now I could do an enumeration of all the _id
values
> (as numbers) from the document, but I have no idea how to select the one
> with the maximal value out of them. And Also, I have no idea how/where to
> store the new id values being assigned.
> The problem is that I've no experience with declarative languages. I can
not
> get used to the idea that a variable can not vary. What I would do is that
> (if curr_value > max) max = curr_value. But how to do this here? Any help
is
> greatly appreciated.
>
> <!-- ID Generator-->
> <xsl:template name="idgen">
>     <xsl:for-each select="node()">
>         <xsl:for-each select="@_id">
>             <xsl:number value="substring-after(current(),'id')"/>;
>         </xsl:for-each>
>     </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Thank you,
> Endre
>


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