Autonumbering Sections via Master?

Question

Reading the forum post Section Numbering in Header it seems as though what I need to do may not be possible, but the online documentation implies otherwise, and Bob Bringhurst suggested I post my question here.
What I'm trying to do is provide chapter-numbers on each page, in addition to page numbers.  But since the content is from XML all my chapters are in the same document and I need to set up the numbering in the Master.
The documentation about "Add an automatically updated chapter number" says ""if you want to divide a single document into chapters, you can create sections instead".  But the section "Define section numbering" seems to be only about dynamic page numbers or static section text (explicitly defined in the Section Options dialog box).
Is there a way to create an automatically updated number in a page header (defined in the Master) that is NOT the page number or chapter number?
I guess my follow-on issue will be - if I can get an automatically updated section number in the header, is there a way to add a Section break, or does that have to be done manually for every section anyway?
julie

Answer 1

Yes. You can add whatever you want between the quotes. You can also
make it:
doc.sections[i].marker = "text before " + (i+1) + " some more text after";
as well...
If you need leading zeros before the number, you can do something like
this:
var sectionNumber = ""+(i+1);
if(sectionNumber.length == 1){
   sectionNumber = "0" + sectionNumber;
doc.sections[i].marker = "text before " + sectionNumber +" some more text after";
Harbs
Message was edited by: Harbs.
Reason: fixing up badly formatted code.