Re: Using count() with a param?

me> count(//*[name()=$nodeName])

> In other
> words, I don't care how many Record nodes I find, I want to know how many
> /Report/Body/Table/Record nodes I find in the document where Report is the
> root node.

well count that instead then:

count(/Report/Body/Table/Record)

or using your variable

count(/Report/Body/Table/*[name()=$nodeName])

If you mean that your nodeName variable isn't a name at all but an
entire Xpath then you can't do it easily in XPath, but many systems have
an evaluate extension function or equivalent (certainly msxml, xalan,
saxon can do that)

David

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