How do you output the current element path in XSLT?

Question

In XSLT, is there a way to determine where you are in an XML document when processing an element?

Example: Given the following XML Doc Fragment...

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Answer 1

Don't think this is built into XPath, you probably need a recursive template, like the one here, which I've based this example on. It will walk every element in an XML document and output the path to that element in a style similar to the one you've described.

    
        
            
        
    

    
        
        
            
        
        
        
    

    
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There are a few complications; consider this tree:

How do you tell the difference between the two child nodes? So you need some index into your item-sequence, child1 and child[2], for example.