I'd suggest instead of using position() to get the position of an element,
use <xsl:number/>.

You could in fact use <xsl:number level="multiple" count="*" format="1,1"/>
to get the whole value...

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Soren Kuula [mailto:dongfang@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 28 July 2005 10:39
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Cleaning text away from context position ...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm toying with a stylesheet that copies an XML document .. 
> and adds an 
> attribute named id:
> 
> For the root element, id is 1
> For some other element, id is that of the parent, plus ',' plus the 
> child cardinality of the element (so first child of the root is 1,1, 
> second child of the root is 1,2, second child of third child 
> of the root 
> is 1,3,2 etc).
> 
> Something like:
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>   <xsl:template match="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()">
>     <xsl:param name="id" select="''"/>
>     <xsl:param name="sep" select="''"/>
>     <xsl:variable name="qid" select="concat($id, $sep, position())"/>
>     <xsl:copy>
>       <xsl:attribute name="id">
>         <xsl:value-of select="$qid"/>
>       </xsl:attribute>
>       <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()">
>         <xsl:with-param name="id" select="$qid"/>
>         <xsl:with-param name="sep" select="','"/>
>       </xsl:apply-templates>
>     </xsl:copy>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> Applying it to itself, I get
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" id="1" 
> version="1.0">
>   <xsl:template id="1,5" 
> match="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()">
>     <xsl:param id="1,5,3" name="id" select="''"/>
>     <xsl:param id="1,5,5" name="sep" select="''"/>
>     <xsl:variable id="1,5,7" name="qid" select="concat($id, $sep, 
> position())"/>
>     <xsl:copy id="1,5,9">
>       <xsl:attribute id="1,5,9,2" name="id">
>         <xsl:value-of id="1,5,9,2,3" select="$qid"/>
>       </xsl:attribute>
>       <xsl:apply-templates id="1,5,9,4" 
> select="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()">
>         <xsl:with-param id="1,5,9,4,3" name="id" select="$qid"/>
>         <xsl:with-param id="1,5,9,4,5" name="sep" select="','"/>
>       </xsl:apply-templates>
>     </xsl:copy>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> - not quite what I wanted, as text nodes are included in the context 
> list and affect context positions.
> 
> What to do about it? I want to preserve text nodes. Seems I 
> can't select 
> and recurse on all element nodes and all text nodes 
> separately (getting 
> a nice context list of elements only), as that would mess up 
> the order 
> of things.
> 
> Any good ideas? Need to recurse in the sibling direction instead?
> 
> Soren