==== Counters ====

Use this technique to associate a counter with each element in a list.

Assume you have the following model:

<code>

<pages>
    <page  name="Color"  />
    <page  name="Length" />
    <page  name="Time"   />
</pages>

</code>

and you want to add an index number, starting at 7, to each page element to get something like this:

<code>

<pages>
    <page  name="Color"  index="7"   />
    <page  name="Length" index="8"   />
    <page  name="Time"   index="9"   />
</pages>

</code>

You can use something like the following tag block to accomplish this task:

<code>

<c:setVariable select="6" var="counter" />

<c:iterate  select="\pages\page" var="p" >

    <c:setVariable select="1 + $counter" var="counter" />
 
    <c:set select="$p" name="index"><c:get select="$counter" /></c:set>

</c:iterate>


</code>

Note that since the model is being updated, best practices would recommend that this bit of template logic be performed in the **main.prod** template or one of the templates included by **main.prod**.  The logic will, of course, work in templates that generate file content, but the white space inside and around the tags will be output as well.