> Within the stylesheet, I needed to convert a month's name into a month
> number, so January = 01, May = 05 and so on.  So I defined 
> the months in order within the stylesheet itself:
> 
> <foo:months>
>   <foo:month name="January" abbr="Jan" />
>   <foo:month name="February" abbr="Feb" />
>   ...
> </foo:months>
> 
> I have tried xsl:number, but the count attribute cannot include the
> document() function.

It doesn't need to. Just use <xsl:for-each> to make the relevant node
current:

   <xsl:variable name="monthNumber">
     <xsl:for-each select="document('')//foo:month[@name = $monthName]">
       <xsl:number/>
     </xsl:for-each>
   </xsl:variable>

(Not tested)

Mike K
 


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