Hi! I'm new to the forum, and I'd appreciate if someone can help me with an issue.

I'm transforming an XML into HTML, and want to get something like numbering for chapters.

Here's a simplified example:
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<report>
<section name="introduction">
    <section name="prologue">there was a time...</section>
</section>
<section name="conclusion">
    <section name="ending">evil guys win</section>
    <section name="epilogue">bleh</section>
</section>
</report>
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I want to get something like:

1.-introduction
1.1.-prologue
2.-conclusion
2.1.-ending
2.2.-epilogue

So, I'm using nested for-each:
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<xsl:for-each select="report/section">
    <xsl:number value="position()"/>.-
    <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
    <p/>
    <xsl:for-each select="./section">
     <xsl:number value="position()"/>.-
     <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
     <p/>
    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
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(there might be some other error in what i've just written, but that's not the point)
So, what i get is this:

1.-introduction
1.-prologue
2.-conclusion
1.-ending
2.-epilogue

My problem is about getting the index of the first loop.
How can I get the index (position) of the superior loop? Any ideas?

Thanks very much in advance

You can store the value of the outer position() in a variable

<xsl:variable name="p" select="position()"/>

and reference it within the inner loop.

However, xsl:number is designed to solve your problem more directly:

<xsl:number level="multiple" count="section"/>



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thank you very much. So simple... I guess the tutorial I read was not very complete ;)