How to have a row number in a custom webpart with pagination

Question

I have a custom list and i would like to have a row number. I did use the <xsl:number/>and that worked but when i click on the next page of the list the number resets itself back to 1 again. Is there a way to have the row number continue when paging. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Why not try the position() function (if you look within the XSLT generated for a DataView or XSLTView you would still find it there) as it is already used for the FirstRow/LastRow combinations, as well as Conditional Formatting routines, e.g.

<xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 1">

        <xsl:attribute>ms-alternating</xsl:attribute>

      </xsl:if>

Answer 2

If the xml you are transforming only contains the data to be displayed on a single page, rather than the complete set, then the XSL has no way of knowing the row number in the context of the complete set. You then become responsible for calculating it.

You probably know the page size and page index as you are managing the paging. You could pass these values into the transformation as arguments.

dataset row index = (page size * page index) + page row index