Michael,

I just found out that you are one of the authors of Professional XML!  It was one of my first XML books.  I never paid attention to who wrote it until now.:)  Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Charlene

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhk@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:39 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  xsl:number problem


>   After I changed to <xsl:number level="any" 
> count="productId[publisher='NETg' or publisher='Wave']"/>  or 
>   <xsl:number level="any" count="//productId[publisher='NETg' 
> or publisher='Wave']"/>
> 
> Clearly the second expression starting with // will always 
> give the same value as it always counts all the nodes in the 
> document, since it starts with / it does not depend on the 
> current node at all.
> 
> The first expression will return different values depending 
> on the current node.
> 

You're confusing me, David. The count attribute is not an expression, it
is a pattern. xsl:number depends implicitly on the current node.

Michael Kay


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