It's probably simplest to put the xsl:number within an xsl:choose to
distinguish the two cases. However, the from value is a pattern so you could
write something like

from="db:chapter[$multichapter] | db:article[not($multichapter)]"

where $multichapter is a boolean variable (or expression)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce D'Arcus [mailto:bdarcus@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 07 May 2005 15:52
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  minor grouping issue
> 
> 
> On May 7, 2005, at 9:10 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
> 
> > <xsl:number level="any" count="footnote" from="chapter"/>
> 
> Excellent; thanks!
> 
> So then, if I want to bring this together with the other issue that 
> David C. helped me with last night, what's the best way to have the 
> from value conditioned on a parameter or variable?
> 
> This is what I ended up with the solve the other related problem.  So 
> in my importing stylesheet, I override $chapters with a 
> definition that 
> includes all the chapters.
> 
>    <xsl:variable name="chapters" select="/"/>
>    <xsl:variable name="citerefs" 
> select="($chapters)//db:biblioref/@linkend,
>                                          
> /course:syllabus//course:reading/@refid,
>                                          //cite:biblioref/@key"/>
> 
> So for the footnotes, if I have multiple db:chapter or 
> $chapters/db:chapter elements, then it should count within those 
> chapters.  Otherwise, it should count over the document (which would 
> probably be db:article).
> 
> Bruce