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  Hi all!

I'm about to create some dropdown boxes in a HTML page,
which contains months, and can be selected with an index
value in an xml file.
For example:

<monthrange>
 <from>2</from>
 <to>6</to>
</monthrange>

where from=2 should mean march, ad to=6 should mean july.

I'd like to create a callable template, with a parameter
given, which outputs an html fragment like this:

<option value="0">January</option>
<option value="1">February</option>
<option value="2" selected="1">March</option>
<option value="3">April</option>
.
.
.
<option value="11">December</option>

My question is, if there is an easy way to enumerate months
as  predefined values, so I can create the callable template
something like this:

<xsl:for-each select="MONTHS">
 <xsl:element name="option">
  <xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of
select="position()-1" /></xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:if test="number($selected)=position()-1">
    <xsl:attribute name="selected">1</xsl:attribute>
   </xsl:if>
   <xsl:value-of select="NAME"/>
 </xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>

where $selected is the selected elements index, and NAME
should be (as I imagine) something like this:
<MONTHS>
 <NAME>January</NAME>
 <NAME>February</NAME>
 .
 .
 .
 <NAME>December</NAME>
</MONTHS>

I would really like to avoid listing all month options as
<xsl:element> declarations.

Best would be if the above could be declared in a separate
file, so I could call it from any stylesheets I use.

  Probably it's an  annoying question, as it must be
something obvious, but I could not find the way to solve this.



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