XSLT line counter - is it that hard?
- by Mr AH
I have cheated every time I've needed to do a line count in XSLT by using JScript, but in this case I can't do that. I simply want to write out a line counter throughout an output file. This basic example has a simple solution:
<xsl:for-each select="Records/Record">
<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
</xsl:for-each>
Output would be:
1
2
3
4
etc...
But what if the structure is more complex with nested foreach's :
<xsl:for-each select="Records/Record">
<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
<xsl:for-each select="Records/Record">
<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
Here, the inner foreach would just reset the counter (so you get 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2 etc). Does anyone know how I can output the position in the file (ie. a line count)?
