XML, XSLT and generating ID's

[rob.guitar.rob]

Hello,

I need to generate unique numeric identifiers for XML file nodes. I
tried the generate-id() function but it does not genereate numeric
codes (gives me strings of letters). Unfortunately the XML files are
being used by a 3rd party software that must have them as numbers.

Does anyone know of a way to generate unique numeric id's? Tried the
position() funciton as well, but cannot get that to work for the whole
document as the numbers are related to the query return.

Thanks for any help, Rob.

 

[David Carlisle]

<xsl:attribute name="x"><xsl:number level="any" count="*"/></xsl:attribute>

David

 

[rob.guitar.rob]

Thanks! Got it woking now. Cheers, Rob