numbering output and other newbie issues

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Subject: numbering output and other newbie issues
From: Terry Ofner <tofner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:19:23 -0500

I am a newbie to xsl stylesheets as well as xml. I have set myself a specific task as my first "assignment." I have a set of English grammar exercises for which I want to build an answer key. The exercises are not in XML format yet, so I have control over the XML format as well as the XSL stylesheet.

Here is my first trial XML document.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Story> <chapter>The Sentence Base?</chapter> <GrammarTopic>Finding Subjects</GrammarTopic> <Directions>Underline the subject in each sentence. If the subject is an understood you, write you.</Directions> <GrammarQuiz> <Item>1. Find your seats quickly. <Answer>you</Answer></Item> <Item>2. During open auditions there are very few empty <Answer>seats</Answer> in the auditorium.</Item> <Item>3. Have <Answer>you</Answer> heard the director's name?</Item> </GrammarQuiz> </Story>

And here is the stylesheet.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="Story/GrammarQuiz/Item/Answer" />

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The result is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Answer>you</Answer><Answer>seats</Answer><Answer>you</Answer><Answer>actress</Answer><Answer>director</Answer>

This result is okay, but I would like to number each answer. I have tried to add this line after the copy-of select line:

<xsl:number count="*" format="1. "/>

This line does not change the output.

There are other anomalies (or what appear to me to be anomalies.) For example, when I change copy-of select to value-of select I get this output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>you.

I am using SAXON 6.5.4 on a Windows laptop. I have tried the same on Mas OS X with XSLT Tester with the same result-- which only proves that it is my stylesheet that is at fault (along with my thinking).

Any help would be appreciated.

Terry

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