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Hi Xavier, > I've got an XML document with <chapter> elements containing > <section> elements. I'm currently writing an XSL that > transforms such XML documents into XHTML. I want my sheet > to automatically number chapters and sections. For this > purpose, i use the <xsl:value-of select="position()"/> in my > template that match the "chapter" element. > > Now i'd like to have the section numbered as follow > "ChapterNumber.SectionNumber"... so the question is how do > I get the ChapterNumber when i'm processing a section element? > In other words, I'd like to get the position() of the parent > of a given node... This sounds like a perfect opportunity for xsl:number. Try: <xsl:number level="multiple" count="chapter | section" format="1.1" /> If that's not what you're after, then you can always calculate the position of an element relative to its siblings by counting how many previous siblings there are and adding one: count(preceding-sibling::*) + 1 So you could do your numbering with: concat(count(../preceding-sibling::*) + 1, '.' count(preceding-sibling::*) + 1) But I think you'll find xsl:number *a lot* easier. I hope that helps, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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