I'm not a programmer (except maybe a bit of an XSLT programmer) so I'll give
you a brief answer; other people can probably explain better. 
No, there's no way of doing iteration in XSLT. You have to use recursion.
Basically, create a named template and have it call itself until some
condition is satisfied (using xsl:choose). There are bound to be examples in
the FAQ! 
Linda

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bell [mailto:pbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 12:27 AM
To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Loop control


Hi All,
 
Is there a tried and true method of iterating a specific number of times?
xsl:for-each seems to constrain me to iterating over nodesets.  But I'd like
to be able to loop exactly, say, 256 times - each time generating some
output.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Cordially,
 
Paul


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