Summary Wraps up the logic for displaying the count of items.

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<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="bookcase"> <div style="margin-top:1ex;margin-left:1ex;"> This bookcase has <xsl:call-template name="displayCount"> <xsl:with-param name="select" select="shelf"/> <xsl:with-param name="singular" select="'shelf'"/> <xsl:with-param name="plural" select="'shelves'"/> </xsl:call-template>, and a total of <xsl:call-template name="displayCount"> <xsl:with-param name="select" select=".//book"/> <xsl:with-param name="singular" select="'book'"/> </xsl:call-template>. </div> </xsl:template> <xsl:template name="displayCount"> <xsl:param name="select"/> <xsl:param name="count" select="count( $select )"/> <xsl:param name="singular"/> <xsl:param name="plural" select="concat( $singular, 's' )"/> <xsl:value-of select="concat( $count, ' ' )"/> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$count = 1"> <xsl:value-of select="$singular"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:value-of select="$plural"/> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>