It took a lunch break for me to realise, that I was calling the code that 
built the xml multiple times, and therefore it never had more than one user 
node per call. Instead now I save up the resulting xml till the end and then 
call transform and it correctly increments position().

Sorry for the wasted post.
Janette


"Janette" <jtowell@r...> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> Firstly I apologise in advance I only just started using xsl yesterday. Am 
> I am a beginner with XML. I have tried to find the answer to my problem on 
> the web but just can't.
>
> I want to output as a table all user nodes. Including a radio button 
> collection with distinct names for each row. I have tried to use 
> position() as I understood that this gives the position of the node that 
> is being processed, but it always comes back as 1. I am guessing that my 
> problem is something to do with the template match and for each 
> combination but I can't work it out.
>
> ie I want as output
> <tr><td>1234</td><td>Joe Smith</td><td><input type="radio" 
> checked="checked" name="1" /></td><td><input type="radio" 
> name="1"/></td></tr>
> <tr><td>5678</td><td>Jane Brown</td><td><input type="radio" name="2" 
> /></td><td><input type="radio" checked="checked" name="2"/></td></tr>
>
> but instead I get as output
> <tr><td>1234</td><td>Joe Smith</td><td><input type="radio" 
> checked="checked" name="1" /></td><td><input type="radio" 
> name="1"/></td></tr>
> <tr><td>5678</td><td>Jane Brown</td><td><input type="radio" name="1" 
> /></td><td><input type="radio" checked="checked" name="1"/></td></tr>
>
> XML file looks like this
>
> <root>
> <user>
> <account>1234</account>
> <name>Joe Smith</name>
> <neverexp>True</neverexp>
> </user>
> <root>
> <user>
> <account>5678</account>
> <name>Jane Brown</name>
> <neverexp>False</neverexp>
> </user>
> </root>
>
> xsl file looks like this
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> <xsl:template match="/">
>  <xsl:for-each select="root/user">
>  <tr>
>    <td><xsl:value-of select="account" /></td>
>    <td><xsl:value-of select="name"/></td>
>    <xsl:choose>
>      <xsl:when test="neverexp='True'">
>        <td align="center">
>          <input type="radio" checked="checked">
>            <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of 
> select="position()"/></xsl:attribute>
>          </input>
>        </td>
>        <td align="center">
>          <input type="radio">
>            <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of 
> select="position()"/></xsl:attribute>
>          </input>
>        </td>
>      </xsl:when>
>      <xsl:otherwise>
>        <td align="center">
>          <input type="radio">
>            <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of 
> select="position()"/></xsl:attribute>
>          </input>
>        </td>
>        <td align="center">
>          <input type="radio" checked="checked">
>            <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of 
> select="position()"/></xsl:attribute>
>          </input>
>        </td>
>      </xsl:otherwise>
>    </xsl:choose>
>  </tr>
>  </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
> Janette
>