Create index number
File: Data.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <list xml:lang="en"> <title>title 1</title> <listitem>item 1</listitem> <listitem>item 2</listitem> <listitem>item 3</listitem> <listitem xml:lang="sw">item 4</listitem> <listitem xml:lang="en-gb">item 5</listitem> <listitem xml:lang="zu">item 6</listitem> <listitem xml:lang="jz">item 7</listitem> </list> File: Transform.xslt <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="xhtml" encoding="ISO-8859-3" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <head> <title><xsl:value-of select="/list/title"/></title> </head> <body> <h1><xsl:value-of select="/list/title"/></h1> <p> <xsl:for-each select="/list/listitem"> <xsl:number format="1. "/> <xsl:value-of select="."/> <br/> </xsl:for-each> </p> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Output: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-3"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>title 1</title> </head> <body> <h1>title 1</h1> <p>1. item 1 <br></br>2. item 2 <br></br>3. item 3 <br></br>4. item 4 <br></br>5. item 5 <br></br>6. item 6 <br></br>7. item 7 <br></br> </p> </body> </html>