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Asked: 2026-05-10T15:29:12+00:00

How to get a counter inside xsl:for-each loop that would reflect the number of

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How to get a counter inside xsl:for-each loop that would reflect the number of current element processed.
For example my source XML is

<books>     <book>         <title>The Unbearable Lightness of Being </title>     </book>     <book>         <title>Narcissus and Goldmund</title>     </book>     <book>         <title>Choke</title>     </book> </books>

What I want to get is:

<newBooks>     <newBook>         <countNo>1</countNo>         <title>The Unbearable Lightness of Being </title>     </newBook>     <newBook>         <countNo>2</countNo>         <title>Narcissus and Goldmund</title>     </newBook>     <newBook>         <countNo>3</countNo>         <title>Choke</title>     </newBook> </newBooks>

The XSLT to modify:

<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>     <xsl:output method='xml' version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' indent='yes'/>     <xsl:template match='/'>         <newBooks>             <xsl:for-each select='books/book'>                 <newBook>                     <countNo>???</countNo>                     <title>                         <xsl:value-of select='title'/>                     </title>                 </newBook>             </xsl:for-each>         </newBooks>     </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

So the question is what to put in place of ???. Is there any standard keyword or do I simply must declare a variable and increment it inside the loop?

As the question is pretty long I should probably expect one line or one word answer 🙂

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  1. position(). E.G.:

    <countNo><xsl:value-of select='position()' /></countNo>
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