Ah, I'm I'm up a creek. :-/  Well it was a fun thought.  Thanks for the
input everyone.

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 21:01 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> It all depends really on who is doing the line-breaking and when. If you're
> deciding in the XSLT code where to put the line breaks, then it can be done
> as suggested with a recursive template. If the line breaks are being decided
> downstream by an XSL-FO processor, then you're scuppered unless there's some
> XSL-FO construct to help you out (which I'm not aware of, but I'm no
> expert). 
> 
> It would be nice if there were some XML vocabulary at the level of PDF that
> described the physical page layout, which you could then do a transform
> on... But that's wishful thinking.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/ 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Luke Jones [mailto:ljones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 04 August 2006 19:25
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:  Line Numbering
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to number the lines of multiple paragraphs.
> > 
> > For example:
> > xml--
> > <bill>
> > ...
> > <para>
> > FOR AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; to amend sections 28-101,
> > 28-201 and 28-932, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 
> > 2004; to change provision relating to assault by a confined 
> > person; to create the offense of assault...(etc) </para>
> > 
> > I would need xsl code that makes the output look like so...
> > 
> > 1	FOR AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; to amend sections 
> > 2	28-101, 28-201 and 28-932, Revised Statutes Cumulative
> > 3	Supplement, 2004; to change provision relating to assault by a
> > 4	confined person; to creat the offense of assault...(etc)
> > 
> > Can anyone help me with this?  I just getting my feet wet 
> > with xsl, any help would be much appreciated. 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Luke