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Subject: Re: counting in for each
From: JBryant@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 15:02:43 -0600
for each in xsl counting
Hi, Dietmar,

Given an XML file such as:

<widgetpile>
  <widgets>
    <widget/>
    <widget/>
    <widget/>
  </widgets>
  <widgets>
    <widget/>
  </widgets>
</widgetpile>

You can write XSLT thus:

<xsl:template match="widgetpile">
  <xsl:for-each select="widgets">
    Number of Widgets in this group: <xsl:value-of 
select="count(widget)"/>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

When you are processing each widget, you can determine which one you are 
processing with the position() function, thus:

<xsl:template match="widget">
  Now processing widget number <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
</xsl:template>

So, you might link it all together in a single stylesheet thus:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

  <xsl:template match="widgetpile">
    <xsl:for-each select="widgets">
      Number of Widgets in this group: <xsl:value-of 
select="count(widget)"/>
    </xsl:for-each>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="widgets">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="widget">
    Now processing widget number <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Note that the strip-space instruction is present to prevent position() 
from picking up the carriage returns after the <widget> elements in the 
XML file. Otherwise, this transform claims to be processing widgets 2, 4, 
and 6 rather than 1, 2, and 3.

HTH

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)




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12/09/2005 02:12 PM
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Subject
 counting in for each







I am making a list with "for each" and if the list is 1 or 3 items it 
should
change the state of display. And I would also like to change the Icon
depending on how many objects there are....so object 1 has icon 1...object 
2
icon 2

So my question. Is it possible to count how many Items there are in a 
node?
And do I know where I am in a for each?

Thanks to all!

Dietmar Klotz 

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