Re: how to figure out what level a node is on

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Subject: Re: how to figure out what level a node is on
From: George Cristian Bina <george@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 13:40:26 +0300

Hi,

It is hard to understand your problem from your post, in general will help if you can add a sample to show your data, what XSLT code you already tried, if any, and the expected output.

I will take a guess and consider that you are interested in the level of imbrication of a given element inside the document. In that case you can just count the number of ancestors.

xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<menu>
    <item name="topMenu">
        <item name="subMenu">
            <item name="subSubMenu">
            </item>
        </item>
    </item>
</menu>

stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="//item"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="item"> [<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>-<xsl:value-of select="count(ancestor::*)"/>] </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

result:

[topMenu-1]

[subMenu-2]

[subSubMenu-3]

Hope that helps,
 George
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George Cristian Bina
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Morten Andersen wrote:

I'm building a menu using xslt. Therefore I need to figure out what level an item is on.

How can I figure that out?

thanks
Morten Andersen
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