Question

I’m using XSLT to pull some data from child nodes in an Umbraco (4.7) structure. That part is working fine, but I need to style each <li> item slightly different, so each one will be: <li id=x> where x is an integer between 1 and 15.

I’ve found a couple of methods for incrementing a counter value in XSLT, but I can’t tell why it’s not working as it should. Here’s the relevant source:

<ul>
    <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/Solutions/SolutionsItem[@isDoc]">
        <xsl:variable name="count">
            <xsl:number/>
        </xsl:variable>
        <li id="$count">
            <a><xsl:value-of select="solutionsItemTitle" /></a>
        </li>
    </xsl:for-each>
</ul>

When I review the HTML’s source after running the XSLT, it just shows <li id=$count> rather than an integer. Can anyone suggest where to go from here?

Answer 1

You need an attribute value template <li id="{$count}">...</li> to compute the attribute value from the XPath expression.