Re: Counting Nodes

Is the following expression legal?
count(//|//@*)

I don't think so, // is a short form of /descendant-or-self::node()/ and
according to grammar rule 3
[3]   RelativeLocationPath   ::=   Step |
				RelativeLocationPath '/' Step | 						AbbreviatedRelativeLocationPath

It is supposed to count all nodes and attributes from the current context
node.

So, do as you said:
count(//node()|//@*)

The reason I'm asking is that I'm currently evaluating a few different XSLT
processers, with a view to using one of them in a product I'm working on.
I've noticed that different processers handle it differently, the main
stumbling block being the "//" by itself.

Usually, they work separately (i.e. count(//) and count(//@*) ), but a
couple (e.g. Apache's XalanC) seem to fall over when they are combined as
above.

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Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International, Israel