RE: regexp? or find # of "."s in string

worked like a charm!
Thanks.

by the way, are you the Mike Kay mentioned in XSLT
Programmer's Reference examples on p. 433?




--- Michael Kay <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Try:
> 
> string-length($x) - string-length(translate($x, '.',
> ''))
> 
> Mike Kay
> Software AG
> 
> > 
> > If I can somehow count the number of periods "."
> in
> > the string "id", then I can determine what level
> the
> > <tab> element is at...anyone have any ideas how to
> > count the number of occurences in a string with
> XSL?
> > 
> 
> 
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> 


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