Annoying problem

Hi,

This is an annoying problem which will hopefully be less annoying to those
of you who haven't been banging your heads against it for the past few
hours:

I'm writing a transformation for my thesis, from XML to HTML. Part of the
DTD states that sections may nest recursively within sections. Given any
one of these sections or subsections as a context node, I'd like to be
able to generate a "tumbler" for that node. For example:

<section> <!-- 1 -->
 <section> <!-- 1.1 --> </section>
 <section> <!-- 1.2 -->
  <section> <!-- 1.2.1 --> </section>
  <section> <!-- 1.2.2 --> </section>
 </section>
 <section> <!-- 1.3 --> </section>
</section>
<section> <!-- 2 --> </section>

I have been trying a lisp-style approach: given a "section" node, find its
position relative to its section siblings, and concatenate that value (as
a string) with that of its parent, and so forth until the parent is no
longer a section node. While I'm fairly convinced this is the correct
approach, I haven't been able to get it to work. I'd say I know XSLT
and XPath fairly well but many intricacies of the languages are still new
to me, so this is somewhat aggravating...

Any help or ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Dan


 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list