XSLT numbering by attribute

[James Merdan]

Hi,
I'm having an issue I was hoping someone could help me with. I have
a number of tags which have an attribute 'type' like this:
<data file="file1.jpg " type="image"/>
<data file="file2.jpg " type="image"/>
<data file="file3.jpg " type="image"/>
<data file="file1.txt " type="text"/>
<data file="file2.txt " type="text"/>
<data file="file1.bin " type="binary"/>

etc...

Now I can get a total count by data/@type like this:
image : 3
text : 2
binary : 1

But what I want to be able to do is get a running total like this:
file1.jpg image 1 of 3
file2.jpg image 2 of 3
file3.jpg image 3 of 3
...

I'm stuck with the XML coming in the way it is, so is there a way to
do this with XSL?

Thanks,
James

[Dimitre Novatchev]

Re: XSLT numbering by attribute

This is a grouping problem -- for a description of the Muenchian method for
grouping see:

http://www.topxml.com/code/default.asp?p=3&id=v20010129150851

and

http://jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/index.html

=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL



"James Merdan" <jamesmerdan@ya hoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I'm having an issue I was hoping someone could help me with. I have
> a number of tags which have an attribute 'type' like this:
> <data file="file1.jpg " type="image"/>
> <data file="file2.jpg " type="image"/>
> <data file="file3.jpg " type="image"/>
> <data file="file1.txt " type="text"/>
> <data file="file2.txt " type="text"/>
> <data file="file1.bin " type="binary"/>
>
> etc...
>
> Now I can get a total count by data/@type like this:
> image : 3
> text : 2
> binary : 1
>
> But what I want to be able to do is get a running total like this:
> file1.jpg image 1 of 3
> file2.jpg image 2 of 3
> file3.jpg image 3 of 3
> ...
>
> I'm stuck with the XML coming in the way it is, so is there a way to
> do this with XSL?
>
> Thanks,
> James[/color]