Re: Numbering new nodes using consecutive integers

In addition to David's and Ken's suggestions, here's a Gordian knot
solution to consider -- is there any reason why this has to be done in
a single pass?

The numbering would be trivially easy in a second pass.

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.