Re: Creating Hierarchy

At 2008-10-17 13:47 +0100, Rowan Sylvester-Bradley wrote:

You'll find a description of an XSLT 2.0 stylesheet that does this (and some
other things besides) at

http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml04/papers/111/mhk-paper.html

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

Thanks to Michael and Ken for your replies. I've now got it more or less working using xsl:for-each-group. However, I've got another problem that I can't quite work out. Each of the main elements in the result file needs to have a unique ID attribute.

An ID attribute value must be a name token, so your "1","2",... won't be correct. But you could use something like "N1","N2",...

I.e. the id attributes just keep incrementing regardless of the hierarchy.

How do I generate the values of these id attributes?

Assuming the current node is <node>, then <xsl:number/> can be used without attributes to count the current node amongst its siblings in the source tree:

<xsl:attribute name="id">N<xsl:number/></xsl:attribute>

Cheers,
Wendell

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