RE: xsl:variable

I think this'll work, I've done something similar:

<xsl:template match="category">
        <xsl:variable name="iteration">
                <xsl:number />
        </xsl:variable>
        <xsl:value-of select="iteration" />
</xsl:template>

number will be incremented every time that template executed (at least it works with MSXML 4).

<xsl:apply-templates select="category">
  <xsl:sort select="."/>
</xsl:apply-templates>

Cheers,
Wendell

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