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RE: XPath count/contains

• To: "Laurens van den Oever" <laurens@q...>
• Subject: RE: XPath count/contains
• From: "Tomaz Kastrun" <tomaz@w...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:25:07 +0100
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <646876D1454BE6468B01FDAEB1FC07810FE5EF@D...>

Hi,

obviously, i'm doing something wrong with the " and ' signs, coz i've tried
this already, and it wasn't working :-(

will keep trying!

thanks for reply.

-----Original Message-----
From: Laurens van den Oever [mailto:laurens@q...]
Sent: 07 December 2005 14:21
To: Tomaz Kastrun; xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE:  XPath count/contains


Hi Tomaz,

What about:

<xsl:value-of select="count(//b_id[@id='1'])"/>

Or if you want to count all b_ids with the same id as the current b_id:

<xsl:value-of select="count(//b_id[@id=current()/@id])"/>

Best,

Laurens van den Oever
Q42

-----Original Message-----
From: Tomaz Kastrun [mailto:tomaz@w...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:15 PM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject:  XPath count/contains

hi,

XPath count function counts only the nodes. but what i want to do, is to
count attributes within the certain nodes; as following:


<a>
  <b_id id="1">edd</b_id>
  <b_code>123</b_code>
....
 </a>
 <a>
  <b_id id="3">mike</b_id>
  <b_code>456</b_code>
....
  </a>
 <a>
  <b_id id="3">jack</b_id>
  <b_code>789</b_code>
....
  </a>

if i use
<xsl:value-of select="count(//b_id)"/>
i get result 2
but i would like to count upon the att ID in <b_id>.

so that i get a count for id=1 within <b_id> 1
and count for id=3 within <b_id> 2

I guess XPath doesn't support this. is there anyother solution (without
using any script language).

thank you in advance, Tomaz



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