position or iterator?

[michi michaela]

hi

unfortunatly i could not find any help in my xsl book or online... may you have some time to help me...

ok here is the xml code (simplified of course)


<DATA name="testdata">

<OTHERDATA></OTHERDATA>

<INSTANCE class="Start" name="Example Data">
<ATTRIBUTE name="stuff"></ATTRIBUTE>
</INSTANCE>
<INSTANCE class="OpenData" name="OpenData-44422">
<ATTRIBUTE name="Data">Last Name</ATTRIBUTE>
<ATTRIBUTE name="Comment"/>
</INSTANCE>
<INSTANCE class="ClosedData" name="OpenData-44425">
<ATTRIBUTE name="Data">Adress</ATTRIBUTE>
<ATTRIBUTE name="Comment"/>
</INSTANCE>
INSTANCE class="ClosedData" name="ClosedData-44431">
<ATTRIBUTE name="Data">Gender</ATTRIBUTE>
<RECORD name="Choice of Responses">
<ROW>
<ATTRIBUTE name="Response" type="STRING">male</ATTRIBUTE>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ATTRIBUTE name="Response" type="STRING">female</ATTRIBUTE>
</ROW>
</RECORD>
</INSTANCE>
<INSTANCE class="OpenData" name="OpenData-44459">
<ATTRIBUTE name="Data">First Name</ATTRIBUTE>
<ATTRIBUTE name="Comment"/>
</INSTANCE>

<CONNECTOR class="Sub">
<FROM instance="Example Data" class="Start"/>
<TO instance="OpenData-44459" class="OpenData"/>
</CONNECTOR>
<CONNECTOR class="Sub">
<FROM instance="OpenData-44459" class="OpenData"/>
<TO instance="Open Data-44422" class="OpenData"/>
</CONNECTOR>
... some more connectors .....
</DATA>

what i want to do is to get the data in the right order (which works now) and after each data should be a textbox to answer - in other words it should look like a questionnaire... closed data means that there is a checkbox and open data means that there is a textbox

i wrote already some xsl code - i think the relevant part is:

  
<xsl:template match="/attribute" mode="text">
<xsl:if test="@name='OpenData'">
<xsl:for-each select="value">
<xsl:variable name="answer" >_answer_ <xsl:value-of select="position()"></xsl:value-of>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>:
<br/>
<input type="text" >
<xsl:attribute name="name">
<xsl:value-of select="$answer"></xsl:value-of>
</xsl:attribute>
</input>
<br/>
<!--</div>-->
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:variable name="az_text">
<xsl:value-of select="count(frage)"/>
</xsl:variable>
<input type="text" name="az_text" style="visibility:hidden; display:block;">
<xsl:attribute name="value">
<xsl:value-of select="$az_text"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</input>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template> 
  

with the help of this xsl code i get after each OpenData a textbox

i did the same with the ClosedData (difference: output is checkbox)

BUT now each textbox has the same name: text_answer1
now i have the problem that i cannot save the data which the user types in the form

i think i cannot solve the problem with position() as a counter ...

is there a possibility to use an iterator or something like that in xsl - i could not find anything about

thanks for helping me!!! (sitting for hours to find a solution...