I am creating the ASCII file using XSL.

From XML, when ever i am finding the value from both xml file (Invoice/InvoiceItem/Set/Att[@Id='LC']) AND (Inventory/Item/Parts@Id="myParts")

i will harcode as "HEADING".

At the end I need to find the total number of "HEADING", such as count=count+1. Is it possible to declare global variable and then whenever i need , i can increment the value...in XSL ? or how to handle this case..in XSL ?

Could any one help..

Find the xml file as follows,

Envelope.xml
------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Envelope>
  <Part File='Invoice.xml' LinkType='REL' Format='XML'/>
  <Part File='Inventory.xml' LinkType='REL' Format='XML'/>
</Envelope>



Invoice.xml
-----------
  <Invoice>
            <InvoiceItem CT="A" >
                        <Set>
                           <Att Ty="TM" Id="LC" />
                        </Set>
            </InvoiceItem>
            <InvoiceItem CT="A" >
                        <Set>
                           <Att Ty="TM" Id="LC" />
                        </Set>
            </InvoiceItem>
            <InvoiceItem CT="S" >
                        <Set>
                            <Att Ty="TM" Id="CC" />
                        </Set>
            </InvoiceItem>
  </Invoice>

Inventory.xml
-----------
  <Inventory>
            <Item>
        <Parts>
           <Att Id="myParts" />
        </Parts>
            </Item>
            <Item>
        <Parts>
           <Att Id="myParts" />
        </Parts>
            </Item>
  </Inventory>

You can't do it the way you are suggesting in XSLT, as variables cannot be updated. However you should be able to use the calculation which works out if it should display 'HEADER' to simply count the number of times that that would be displayed.

e.g.

in your template do something like this:

and then at the bottom:


/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Your right.

eg:
   In case if I want sum(HEADER+PRODUCT) such as

<xsl:if test="@Id='AB'">HEADER</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="@Id='CD'">PRODUCT</xsl:if> , then

sum= ( <xsl:value-of select="count(//@Id='AB')"/> + <xsl:value-of select="count(//@Id='CD')"/> )

How to find SUM ?

<xsl:value-of select="count(//@Id='AB') + count(//@Id='CD')"/>

or

<xsl:value-of select="count(//@Id[.='AB' or .='CD'])"/>

or probably various other combinations of the above.


/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/