Counter in XSLT

blacksab

Hi All,

I'm having trouble counting the number of occurring nodes from my input XML.

I have this input:

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<root>

  <level1>

    <countMeIn1/>

  <level1>

  <level1>

    <countMeIn2/>

  <level1>

  <level1>

    <countMeIn3/>

    <countMeIn4/>

    <countMeIn5/>

  <level1>

</root>

And my desired output is:

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<root>

  <countMeIn count="1"/>

  <countMeIn count="2"/>

  <countMeIn count="3"/>

  <countMeIn count="4"/>

  <countMeIn count="5"/>

</root>

I have tried the position() function but that only renders an incremented number for 3,4 and 5.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dormilich

Quote:

Originally Posted by blacksab

I'm having trouble counting the number of occurring nodes from my input XML.

could you explain, how you want to count the nodes, because I can’t follow your calculation.

blacksab

Hi Dormilich,

I explained my input badly. In my input XML I have several nodes named countMeIn. I want to do a sequential count of the included countMeIn nodes in the output XML

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 <root>

   <level1>

     <countMeIn/> <!-- Want an attribute named count="1" for this node-->

   <level1>

   <level1>

     <countMeIn/> <!-- Want an attribute named count="2" for this node-->

   <level1>

   <level1>

     <countMeIn/> <!-- Want an attribute named count="3" for this node-->

     <countMeIn/> <!-- Want an attribute named count="4" for this node-->

     <countMeIn/> <!-- Want an attribute named count="5" for this node-->

   <level1>

 </root>

Dormilich

after some thinking I came up with 2 ideas
1. use the DOM
2. use XSLT twice, the first one is only for grabbing the <CountMeIn> nodes, the second one you can use to make the count attribute.

blacksab

This is solved:

This node to do the assignment to counter:
<xsl:variable name="counter">
<xsl:number level="any" count="countMeIn"/>
</xsl:variable>

And then this node to output the value as an attribute:
<xsl:attribute name="line">
<xsl:value-of select="$counter"/>
</xsl:attribute>

This solution was also given on another thread in this forum.

Thank you for your input.

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