> I want to create a "counter variable" - one that I can increment
> within a stylesheet.

You need to unlearn procedural programming! XSLT is a declarative,
functional language. Tell us what problem you are trying to solve with your
procedural approach, and someone is sure to give you a declarative solution
to it.

Mike Kay


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