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Dhivya J

Subject: Counting Elements
Author: Dhivya J
Date: 01 Feb 2009 07:34 AM

Hi,
Below is my XML :
<ex>
<a>
<b>
<b>
</a>
<a>
<b>
</a>
<a></a>
</ex>

I need to count the number of <a> tas with atleast one sub element b tag.
i.e) for the above xml i should be getting the count as 2(Though I have 3 <a> tags in the XML the third <a> does not have b in it)

I tried the below function :
Count(\ex\a\b[some conditions for b tags attribute])--->but this gives me the number of b tags and not the count of a tags with atleast one btag

Can any one help on this ?

Thanks in advance,
Dhivya

John Bampton

Subject: Counting Elements
Author: John Bampton
Date: 06 Feb 2009 06:27 AM

That's not proper XML

John Bampton

Subject: Counting Elements
Author: John Bampton
Date: 06 Feb 2009 06:58 AM

Simple!

<xsl:value-of select="count(ex/a/b[1])"></xsl:value-of>

James Durning

Subject: Counting Elements
Author: James Durning
Date: 06 Feb 2009 11:39 AM

count(ex/a[b])

This counts actual a nodes. The above answer is counting the first b subnodes within a nodes. It is the same value, but is a little more complicated.

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