> is there a possibility to implement a counting loop without using an extension in xslt??

you don't need an extension for that,
You can use a recursive template, or if you just want to iterate over
the integers, use
<xsl:for-each select="//*[position() &lt;= 10]">
... then position() will go from 1 to 10 in this code.

David

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