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RE: My Difficult counting problem
- From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter dot Hunsberger at stjude dot org>
- To: "'xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:07:11 -0500
- Subject: RE: [xsl] My Difficult counting problem
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> I need some help doing the following, I can't seem to figure out how to do
> this in XSL
>
> I need to convert something like this
> <myElement>
> <foo name="foobar1"/>
> <foo name="foobar2"/>
> <foo name="foobar1"/>
> <foo name="foobar3"/>
> <foo name="foobar1"/>
> <foo name="foobar1"/>
> <foo name="foobar3"/>
> </myElement>
>
> and the output after running it through the XSL would be
>
> numberOccurrences[] = {1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 4, 2};
<xsl:template match="myElement">
numberOccurances[] = {
<xsl:for-each select="foo">
<xsl:value-of select="count(preceding-sibling::*[@name =
current()/@name])+1"/>
<xsl:if test="position() < last()">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
};
</xsl:template>
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