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Subject: Re: Numbering new nodes using consecutive integers
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:49:04 +0100
Re:  Numbering new nodes using consecutive integers
At 2009-03-27 19:07 +0100, Michael Ludwig wrote:
Wendell Piez schrieb:
In general, I agree that this isn't really a job for xsl:number, whose
primary application is to generate numbers relative to the source
tree, not the result.

Yes, but how would you *ever* generate numbers relative to the result ?!

Only by painstakingly recreating the algorithms that generate the result, because the result tree cannot be accessed by XPath expressions.


I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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