• absoluteChildNumber
• ancestorChildNumber
• childNumber
• depth
• formatDate
• formatIndex
• formatNumber
• formatTime
• uniqueID

To demonstrate how you might use some of these stylesheet-specific methods, this example uses the the following 'beers' XML document and an XSL stylesheet that calls the childNumber method:

XML:
<beers>
   <beer>
      <brewer>Badger</brewer>
      <name>Tanglefoot</name>
   </beer>
   <beer>
      <brewer>Wadworths</brewer>
      <name>6X</name>
   </beer>
   <beer>
      <brewer>Hop Back Brewery</brewer>
      <name>Summer Lightning</name>
   </beer>
</beers>

XSL:
<xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:for-each select="beers/beer">
      <xsl:eval>childNumber(this)</xsl:eval>
      <xsl:value-of select="brewer"/>
      <br />
   </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

The code loads both of these documents and then calls the transformNode method to apply the stylesheet to the XML document. The contents are printed with a document.write statement:

Code (JavaScript):
<script>
   xmldoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
   xmldoc.async = false;
   xmldoc.load("beers.xml");

   xsldoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
   xsldoc.async = false;
   xsldoc.load("beers.xsl");
</script>

<script>
   document.write(xmldoc.transformNode(xsldoc));
</script>

It is the stylesheet that ultimately determines how the XML is displayed, and applying the above stylesheet, only the 'brewer' elements will be printed, with each one being numbered as a result of calling the childNumber method. The output will appear like this:

Output:
1 Badger
2 Wadworths
3 Hop Back Brewery

Property
This is a read-only property that returns the last child node of a node. If there is none, it returns null.

Syntax: Node.lastChild

namespaceURI Property
This property is read-only and returns the URI (Universal Resource Indentifier) of the namespace.

Syntax: Node.namespaceURI