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RE: Counting Nodes

Subject: RE: Counting Nodes
From: Joshua.Kuswadi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:36:23 +1100
RE:  Counting Nodes
> I'm curious. Apart from the present case (evaluating processors),
> why might one need to count the total number of nodes in an XML
> document (excluding inquisitiveness)?
> 
> ///Peter

I've read somewhere, probably the XSL FAQs, that using a node set of all nodes is a handy way to do a for loop where you want to count to an arbitrary number. Maybe the stylesheet would like to check if it can get to that number before processing?

Maybe?
Joshua

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