RE: Equivalent of a Global Counter

>You can of course preserve the state by passing the number as a
>parameter in every apply-templates and declaring it as a parameter to
>every template, but this is rarely the best way of tackling a problem.

Like I said, this is a problem as the number will decrement on exit of an
element, meaning that it is not unique within the document (the same number
can be used twice).
M@
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