Autoincrementing column in XSL file

[XMLNewbie]

Hi:

I am trying to autoincrement the column named "order".
Starting at 1 and stepping 1 for each row.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Chuck

<xsl:template match="contact">
<tr>
<xsl:attribute name="bgcolor">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="position() mod 2 = 1">#F0F1F5</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>#E0DFE3</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:attribute>
<td align="center">
<INPUT maxLength="2" name="order" size="2" value="1"/>
</td>
<td align="center">
<INPUT maxLength="30" name="name" size="30" value="{con_nam}"/>
</td>
<td align="center">
<INPUT maxLength="12" name="priphone" size="12" value="{con_phone1}"/>
</td>
<td align="center">
<INPUT maxLength="12" name="altphone" size="12" value="{con_phone2}"/>
</td>
<td align="center">
<INPUT maxLength="12" name="relationship" size="12" value="{con_relation}"/>
</td>
<td align="center">
<INPUT maxLength="34" name="comments" size="26" value="{con_comment}"/>
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

[khalidali63]

XSL is a steteless language,My recomendation for you is save yourself tonnes of hours figuring the incrementation out and just when the page is loaded run javascript with some DOM methods to update the names that match value order.

Here is an example of such doing...
http://68.145.35.86/skills/javascripts/xmlstuff/xmlfiles/DOMXMLParsing.xml

[sheila]

I think this should work:

<xsl:template match="contact">
<xsl:variable name="position" select="position()" />
<tr>
<td align="center">
<INPUT maxLength="2" name="order" size="2" value="{$position}"/>
</td>
etc...
</tr>
</xsl:template>

[XMLNewbie]

Hi Sheila!

Great suggestion. It worked perfectly.

I also found that this statement works after looking at your suggestion.

<INPUT maxLength="2" name="order" size="2" value="{position()}"/>

Without the <xsl:variable name="position" select="position()" /> statement.

Is there any disadvantage in just having one statement instead of two?

Have a great day!

[khalidali63]

great..Shiela.I misundersttod the quest..:D

[sheila]

I don't think so. In fact I'll be using your discovery myself!