Re: How do I count number of nodes?

This is using the XML DOM Reference from the microsoft site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/psdk/xmlsdk/xmls6g53.htm

From: Warren Hedley <w.hedley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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CC: alex chang <shortestpath@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How do I count number of nodes?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:38:45 -0400

alex chang wrote:
>
> How do I cound the total number of children (this will be my x) of the
> column-header element?

Check out the XPath function count(). I seem to remember you're using
IE5 MSXML1, so it may be called something else.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-count

The following should do the trick.

<td valign="center" colspan="{count(*)}"> ... </td>

> Also, should I add the number of upper-left elements
> + the number of mh elements, or should I just take the total number of
> elements under column-header, regardless of who they are?

That depends what you want the output to look like. You
can count the two element types separately.

<td valign="center"
    colspan="{count(upper-left) + count(mh)}"> ... </td>

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Warren Hedley

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