> In the variable declaration you can test if the parameter to see if
> it has a value.

parameters always have a value. in your case the default value is the
empty string "", which means you have to test for it and replace by the
real defualt. It's simpler to make the default be count(preceding-sibling::section)
+ 1, then you can just yse the parametr without testing.

David

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