coding dynamicall in xdocs/ and to delimit output in meta-data?

[Helena Edelson]

Hi, I know how to code for forrest for this link in the xsl files: <a href="">Holly Edelson</a> but how do you code for this sort of link in an xdocs/*.xml file? can I put dynamic code there? Also, how, for  src/xdocs/index.xml file can you code the xsl for it to count the entries in the /meta-data/foo.xml, set a max integer (value) for to generate on the xdocs/index.html page when you run forrest to only show x number of entries for category foo if exists and not show the rest? I mean, say I have type foo and type bar in my meta-data/foo.xml file. Say I have 10 items of type foo and 10 items of type bar, but I only want the generated home page (html) to display 4 per type? is it like <xsl:for-each select="articles/article[ type= foo][ position() &lt; ($entries+1) ]">?                                                                                                       ->this is where I don't have a clue thanks holly