Automatic numbering of headers

Say I have the following document structure:

<h1>First Part</h1>
<h2>First chapter in first part</h2>
<h2>Second chapter</h2>
<h1>Second Part</h1>
<h2>First chapter in second part</h2>
<h3>Paragraph X</h3>
<h3>Paragraph Y</h3>
<h3>Paragraph Z</h3>
<h2>Second chapter</h2>

Is it possible, perhaps using CSS, to automatically append numbering
to these heads, such that the result is:

1 First Part
1.1 First chapter in first part
1.2 Second chapter
2 Second Part
2.1 First chapter in second part
2.1.1 Paragraph X
2.1.2 Paragraph Y
2.1.3 Paragraph Z
2.2 Second chapter

It's not that I really want to apply this on a website, but I am
curious if it is possible with HTML / CSS.

Daan

Daan wrote:

> Is it possible, perhaps using CSS, to automatically append numbering
> to these heads, such that the result is:
>
> 1 First Part
> 1.1 First chapter in first part
> 1.2 Second chapter

> It's not that I really want to apply this on a website, but I am
> curious if it is possible with HTML / CSS.

Possible, but very very very badly supported (Mozilla and IE don't support
it, I haven't tested with Opera or Safari).

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#counter

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In article <be3m7e$8qp$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, dorward@yahoo.com
says...
> Daan wrote:
>
> > Is it possible, perhaps using CSS, to automatically append numbering
> > to these heads, such that the result is:
> >
> > 1 First Part
> > 1.1 First chapter in first part
> > 1.2 Second chapter
>
> > It's not that I really want to apply this on a website, but I am
> > curious if it is possible with HTML / CSS.
>
> Possible, but very very very badly supported (Mozilla and IE don't support
> it, I haven't tested with Opera or Safari).
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#counter
>
Opera's pretty good. Mozilla seems unlikely ever to support them (so
much for standards compliance):

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3247

Fairly simple example: http://porjes.com/revlist.html