Brilliant, works perfectly, thank you so much David.

As usual, I got an excellent, quick response. This is very much
appreciated and helps so much in learning.

Lech

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:47 PM, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  > or is it better to use saxon:assign for that?
>
>  It's never better to use saxon:assign, assigning to variable references
>  in this way completely breaks the processing model of xslt.
>
>
>  > My initial approach was to simply use <xsl:number/>
>  what was wrong with that approach?
>  It would seem that you just want
>
>
>  xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>  version="1.0">
>
>  <xsl:template match="*">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>   </xsl:copy>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>  <xsl:template  match="group">
>    <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>     <xsl:attribute name="number"><xsl:number/></xsl:attribute>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>   </xsl:copy>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>  <xsl:template  match="item">
>    <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>     <xsl:attribute name="number"><xsl:number count="group|item" level="multiple" format="1-1" /></xsl:attribute>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>   </xsl:copy>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>
>  </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
>  $ saxon num.xml num.xsl
>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><top>
>
>     <group number="1">
>         <item number="1-1">test</item>
>         <item number="1-2">test</item>
>         <item number="1-3">test</item>
>         <item number="1-4">test</item>
>     </group>
>     <group number="2">
>         <item number="2-1">test</item>
>   <otheritem>test</otheritem>
>         <item number="2-2">test</item>
>         <item number="2-3">test</item>
>         <item number="2-4">test</item>
>     </group>
>  </top>
>
>
>
>
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