How to get line number in XSLT?

Question

Is it possible to get the line number when we apply XSLT to an XML? I need to know the line number when there is a particular template match found in the XML.

Is it possible to retrieve the line number?

Answer 1

If you mean the line number of the node in the source document, Saxon provides this using an extension function saxon:line-number(), provided the source document is supplied via an interface (e.g. a SAX parser) that reports line numbers. There's no standard XSLT mechanism for this.