Re: count selected nodes in for-each

> xsl:choose is outside the xsl:for-each of course

yes sorry about, it should have been obvious from the context.
Still my answer still holds, although you may want to grab the
node set into a variable to save using the long xpath twice.

<xsl:variable name="foo" 
    select="document('../../released_xml/news_xml_en/newsticker.xml')/News/Block
   [@STARTDATE = '01']"/>

<xsl:for-each select="$foo">
...
</xsl:for-each)


<xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="not($foo)"> 
             <!-- or if you prefer, count($foo) = 0 ,
                  which is the same thing -->
   ...

David


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