Hi list

I am trying to make a user-defined function that can return the
linenumber of a node (yes I know Saxon has an extension function doing
the same). So far my solution works for element nodes and that is good
enough for now.

But I am using the analyze-string element. I would like to find a
solution not using analyze-string in order to get a solution that
would also work when the expressions are modified and transferred to
Schematron. I am not sure if it is possible? Some clever REGEX?

If the document does not contain the element node in question also as
text inside comments, CDATA sections and PI's, I can do without
analyze-string. I use analyze-string only to neutralize false
positives simply by deleting all "<" found inside comments, CDATA
sections and PIs.

It is possible to do without analyze-string under all circumstances?

My function works like this:

I load the document as unparsed text and deletes all "<" from
comments, CDATA sections and PIs to avoid false positives. I then use
the node name (e.g.: "p") to split the string and make a new string of
the items until the node number (e.g.: the third "p"). I then count
the characters, delete all linefeeds, count again, and subtract to get
the count of linefeeds until the element node in question.

My function looks like this:

<xsl:function name="please:linenumber">
        <xsl:param name="document-uri"/><!-- similar to document-uri() -->
        <xsl:param name="node-name"/><!-- e.g.: 'p' -->
        <xsl:param name="node-number"/><!-- e.g.: '3', that is the
third p -->
        <xsl:variable name="unparsed" select="unparsed-text($document-uri)"/>
        <xsl:variable name="unparsed2">
            <xsl:analyze-string select="$unparsed"
regex="&lt;!--.*?--&gt;|&lt;!\[CDATA\[.*?\]\]&gt;|&lt;\?.*?\?&gt;"
flags="s">
            <xsl:matching-substring>
                <xsl:value-of select="replace(., '&lt;', '')"/>
            </xsl:matching-substring>
            <xsl:non-matching-substring>
                <xsl:value-of select="."/>
            </xsl:non-matching-substring>
        </xsl:analyze-string>
        </xsl:variable>
       <xsl:value-of
select="string-length(string-join(subsequence(tokenize($unparsed2,
concat('&lt;', $node-name)), 1, $node-number), ' ')) -
            string-length(replace(string-join(subsequence(tokenize($unparsed2,
concat('&lt;', $node-name)), 1, $node-number), ' '), '&#xA;', ''))"/>
    </xsl:function>

Cheers
Jesper Tverskov
http://www.xmlplease.com