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At 06:11 AM 6/10/2003, you wrote:
what i need is to know how much characters i have write in the output file each time, because i want to make a table of contents like this: paragraph1 begining end --------- ------ ---- paragraph i ------ ---- Ah, well you could pass your external filename in as a parameter at runtime, instead of hardcoding it. As far as knowing how many characters precede a given position (say, the start of a paragraph), are you speaking of characters irrespective of markup, or characters including markup? That is, given <text> <p>Here's paragraph one.</p> <p>Here's paragraph two.</p> </text> Do you want the first p to yield 0 (or perhaps 2 if you count the whitespace after the <text> start tag) and the second, 21 (the length of the first p)? Or do you want an absolute character offset including the characters that appear in the start tags "<text>", "<p>" and so on? If the first, it can be done in XSLT, although it's not necessarily the best tool for the job. If you mean the second, XSLT is certainly *not* the tool for the job since the XSLT source tree (created by parsing the file) does not keep track of tags. Please clarify. Cheers, Wendell
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