Re: [docbook-apps] Page X of Y in user.footer.navigation

I had a look at the 'process-chunk-element' template but I find
it quite cryptic (I don't have a lot of experience in writing/modifying
XSL stylesheets). I was expecting that I was not the first one to have 
this need and that a "recipe" would exist :-(

Diane Larin
INRO

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Bob Stayton wrote:

> I think this could be done by borrowing some of the chunkfast code.  
It
> precomputes a node-set of all the chunks.  Once you have that, you 
could
> count the nodes to get Y, and figure out the position of the current 
chunk
> in the node-set to get X.   Take a look at the first part of the 
template
> named 'process-chunk-element' in html/chunk-code.xsl.  It shows how to
> process nodes in the chunk node-set.
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> 
> 
> 
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> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Page X of Y in user.footer.navigation
> 
> 
> > > I'm not sure I understand.  There are no page numbers in chunked 
HTML.
> > > Do you mean to label the chunks with a sequence number X, with Y 
being
> > > the total number of chunks?
> >
> > Exactly. This is for a tutorial where we want to be able to inform
> > the user what remains to be done.
> >
> > Diane Larin
> > INRO