I if you're in a loop, I would use mod and position.  Here's something I did
to make colored bars in an HTML "person list" table

<xsl:for-each select="Person">
	<TR>
		<TD>
			<xsl:attribute name="BGCOLOR">
				<xsl:choose>
					<xsl:when test="position() mod 2 =
1">#FFFFFF</xsl:when>
					<xsl:when test="position() mod 2 =
0">#DBDBDB</xsl:when>
				</xsl:choose>
			</xsl:attribute>
			<A HREF="personlink.html">
				<xsl:value-of select="PersonName" />
			</A>
		</TD>
	</TR>
</xsl:for-each>

>-----Original Message-----
>From: juggy@xxxxxxx [mailto:juggy@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 8:07 PM
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: counting and displaying with xsl?
>
>
>Hi,
>
>Is there any way to use xsl to count the number of items in my 
>xml? I'd like to know this so I could arrange them according to their 
>number (e.g. have a line break every 5 items).
>I think of something like
><xsl:if "count > 5">
>	ARRANGE NORMAL
><xsl:if-otherwise>
>	LINEBREAK
>	ARRANGE NORMAL
>...
>
>Juggy
>
>
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