> The only way i found is
> to call a template, and (try to) count the number of
> time it's called.

well you can do that by passing the count as a parameter, but you also
need to make sure that your templates are called in the correct order.

For example suppose you have

<x>
  <y/>
  <y/>
  <y/>
  <y/>
  <y/>
  <y/>
</x>

and you wanted to get 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 from the template for y
it wouldn't work to go

<xsl:template match="x">
 <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:template match="y">
  some code to show how many times this template has been called.
</xsl:template>

as that could generate the numbers 1 to 6 in any order: you can't rely
on the system to apply the templates to the y elements in the natural
order.

But you can force the order by going


<xsl:template match="x">
 <xsl:apply-templates select="y[1]"/>
</xsl:template>


</xsl:template match="y">
 <xsl:param name="ycount" select="1"/>
 y: <xsl:value-of select="$ycount"/>
 <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling:y[1]">
  <xsl:with-param name="ycount" select="$ycount+1"/>
 </xsl:apply-templates/>
 </xsl:template>


But I'd still expect that using xsl:number would be easier than doing
the above and making sure the ycount parameter was appropriately passed
to all templates.

David

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