How to use an incremented counter to provide a unique id in XSLT?

Question

I am using XSLT to convert a very large XML document into (X)HTML. For some of the tags I am converting them to a

. I would like to be able to create

Answer 1

As suggested several times before, you need position(), but you have to iterate over the items using xsl:for-each:

This will produce something like:

book1
book2
book3

for

    book1
    book2
    book3