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RE: <xsl:number?

Subject: RE: <xsl:number?
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:25:33 +0100
RE:  <xsl:number?
Hard to tell what you're doing without more info, e.g. what is the context
node?

Using "from" with the default level="single" hardly ever makes sense, and in
some cases in XSLT 1.0 I don't think it's well-defined (e.g. in the case
where nothing matches the "from" pattern).

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Vint [mailto:dvint@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 September 2005 20:59
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  <xsl:number?
> 
> I thought I understood how number worked but recently I have 
> come across 
> tow places where my sequence restarts in unusual places. For 
> instance I 
> have a simple numbering for footnotes that looks like this:
> 
> <xsl:number count="footnote" from="div1" format="1"/>
> 
> The way I understand this, the footnotes should be numbered 
> sequentially 
> starting at 1, and restart at one when ever a new div1 is seen.
> 
> The result I get in my output for several footnotes that fall 
> on the same 
> page and inside the same div1 is as follows:
> 
> 1
> 1
> 1
> 2
> 
> Now these footnotes fall in different elements, nested at 
> different levels, 
> but all within the same div1. Is there something else that 
> can affect the 
> numbering sequence outside of the statement I have quoted above?
> 
> ..dan
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