Fox, Michael wrote: > However, I don't think that the solution proposed below will work in the > situation we are dealing with- namely, we want to assign a unique, > consecutive number (1,2,3, etc.) to each <c01> element Unless less I'm misunderstanding your requirements, <xsl:number/> will most ceratinly do this. "View source" the following <http://157.252.227.46/ead/xslnumb.html.> (The file is 00020.xml run through XT using feith1218.xml. Your TOC is not displayed as I had to remove all <csl:value-of/>s to get the stylesheet to parse with XT. but not in the > context of an HTML list. the 'format' of the result tree is, I think, irrelevant. All moot of course as <xsl:number/> won't work in IE (at lease I can't get it to). > The alternative for us, working within the XSL standard in its current > draft, probably would be to use the counter feature. > Yep! That will probably do it too. Stephen -- Stephen Yearl, Project Archivist [log in to unmask] ************************* Connecticut Historical Society 1 Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT, 06105 ************************* http://www.chs.org *************************