Hi
I have an XSLT structure as bellow. I tried to build a counter with the position () function .But it does not work because the position () function ever begins with 1 in a loop. (In node1, node2, node3 the position begins with 1 (position= 1))

<xsl:for-each select="node1/m">
<m><xsl:value-of select="position()"/>   </m>    <== position should be 1
.......
<xsl:for-each select="node1/node2/a">
  <a>....</a>                                              <== position = 2
  <a>....</a>                                                <== position = 3
  <a>.....</a>                                            <== position = 4
  </xsl:for-each>

<xsl:for-each select="node1/node3/f1">

  <f1><xsl:value-of select="position()"/></f1>                                    <== position = 5
</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:for-each>

<xsl:template match="node1/m">
etc

Michael Kay
Saxonica