Re: automatic generation of figure numbers

["Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>]

Dhruv Raheja writes:
 > <figure file="pic.gif">
 > Figure
 > </figure>
 > 
 > The formatting is being done using XSL. The output should comprise:
 > 
 > -the text "Figure"
 > -a number (e.g. "1").
...
 > The XSL code has a "count()" 
 > command that counts the preceding <figure> elements and then assigns the 
 > next number to the current <figure> element. 

um, this is not the right way to do it. XSLT has a MUCH simpler
builtin method, xsl:number:

<xsl:template match="figure">
 Figure  <xsl:number level="any"/>
 ......
</xsl:template>


 > Then I feel the need to refer back 
 > to "Figure 1". 

_how_ do you refer to it? by ID? eg <figref idref="foo"/>?

<xsl:template match="figref">
 see Figure <xsl:apply-templates select="id(@idref)" mode="xref"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="figure" mode="xref">
 Figure  <xsl:number level="any"/
</xsl:template>


but I suspect I misunderstand your markup. why not post a small sample
of your input XML?

Sebastian


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