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- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:50:09 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27060
Bug ID: 27060
Summary: [xslt 3.0] xsl:number level="multiple" start-at="3"
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Version: Working drafts
Hardware: PC
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: XSLT 3.0
Assignee: mike@saxonica.com
Reporter: mike@saxonica.com
QA Contact: public-qt-comments@w3.org
This is prompted by a suggestion on StackOverflow to use xsl:number/@start-at
where it doesn't actually do what the respondent wanted to achieve, namely (b)
below.
There are three potential uses for start-at with level="multiple".
(a) where you want numbering at every level to start at zero, e.g.
0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 1.0.0, 1.0.1 etc
(b) where you want the top-level number to start at something greater than one,
typically because you are only processing one chapter of a document:
3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2., 3.2.1 etc
(c) where for some reason different levels start at different points, e.g.
1.x, 1.y, 1.z
1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.1.2
Our current spec only allows for (a). People might be a little surprised if
they say level="multiple" start-at="3" and get
3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.4.3, 3.5, 3.6.3
when they were expecting
3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.1, 3.3, 3.4.1
I think it would be much more useful to specify a list of numbers, representing
the start point for each level. Corresponding to the existing convetion for the
format attribute, if the list is shorter than the number of levels, the last
number in the list would be used (which falls back to the current spec if there
is only one number in the list).
So for (a) you would specify start-at="0", for (b) you would specify
start-at="3.1", for (c) you would specify start-at="1.24". (Or we could be more
friendly and make it start-at="1.x", i.e. use the formatted representation
rather than the unformatted).
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