RE: Counting number of characters of sibling text node

>What I want to do is to count the number os characters in a  text node
and all previous >text nodes children of the current text node's parent.

For this xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <node>
    xxx
    <br/>
    yyy
    <br/>
    zzzz
  </node>
</root>

This xsl should do the trick:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="node">
  <xsl:variable name="theText">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:value-of
select="string-length(translate(normalize-space($theText),' ',''))"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Here I think its best to store all of the text() children of the node in
a variable.  The text nodes may contain whitespace as well, so to get
rid of that use normalize-space() and then do a translate() to remove
the single white spaces that are left.

cheers
andrew

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