Příklad převzat z Extended SAX Filter Processing with STX by Oliver Becker
„Modify the input by adding a consecutive ID attribute to certain elements (footnotes that appear within chapters):“
<stx:transform xmlns:stx="http://stx.sourceforge.net/2002/ns"
xmlns:ex="http://www.example.com/"
version="1.0" pass-through="all">
<stx:variable name="count" select="1" />
<stx:template match="chapter//footnote">
<stx:copy attributes="@*">
<stx:attribute name="ex:id" select="$count" />
<stx:assign name="count" select="$count + 1" />
<stx:process-children />
</stx:copy>
</stx:template>
</stx:transform>