RE: <xsl:number?

Anyone who can work out what xsl:number does by reading the XSLT 1.0
specification alone can join the elite. It's James Clark prose at its most
magnificent. 

I have my own views on how to write specs, but a spec is not a tutorial.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Vint [mailto:dvint@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 September 2005 23:41
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  <xsl:number?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> you are saying the same thing as Chris did, which fixed my 
> problem. In this 
> case you are referencing the fact that level defaults to 
> single, where 
> Chris indicated to set it to any - which fixed my problem.
> 
> I had another related problem with a multiple numbering scheme. In 
> rereading the 7.7 section of XSLT and playing with the values 
> I discovered 
> that there is a need to sometimes use two or more 
> <xsl:number> elements 
> together to get the numbering that you want. Some how I had 
> managed to have 
> tables and figures all appear at the same level up until this 
> week and it 
> pointed out this second deficiency. This other use is shown 
> in the spec, 
> but it doesn't explain that it is the only way to make some 
> combinations 
> work. I just looked at it as an alternate way of doing what 
> the examples 
> with level=multiple were showing.
> 
> 
> ..dan
> 
> At 03:25 PM 9/14/2005, Michael Kay wrote:
> >Hard to tell what you're doing without more info, e.g. what 
> is the context
> >node?
> >
> >Using "from" with the default level="single" hardly ever 
> makes sense, and in
> >some cases in XSLT 1.0 I don't think it's well-defined (e.g. 
> in the case
> >where nothing matches the "from" pattern).
> >
> >Michael Kay
> >http://www.saxonica.com/
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dan Vint [mailto:dvint@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 14 September 2005 20:59
> > > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject:  <xsl:number?
> > >
> > > I thought I understood how number worked but recently I have
> > > come across
> > > tow places where my sequence restarts in unusual places. For
> > > instance I
> > > have a simple numbering for footnotes that looks like this:
> > >
> > > <xsl:number count="footnote" from="div1" format="1"/>
> > >
> > > The way I understand this, the footnotes should be numbered
> > > sequentially
> > > starting at 1, and restart at one when ever a new div1 is seen.
> > >
> > > The result I get in my output for several footnotes that fall
> > > on the same
> > > page and inside the same div1 is as follows:
> > >
> > > 1
> > > 1
> > > 1
> > > 2
> > >
> > > Now these footnotes fall in different elements, nested at
> > > different levels,
> > > but all within the same div1. Is there something else that
> > > can affect the
> > > numbering sequence outside of the statement I have quoted above?
> > >
> > > ..dan
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > > -------------
> > > Danny Vint
> > >
> > > Specializing in Panoramic Images of California and the West
> > > http://www.dvint.com
> > >
> > > voice: 510-522-4703
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
> Danny Vint
> 
> Specializing in Panoramic Images of California and the West
> http://www.dvint.com
> 
> voice: 510-522-4703