Counting Characters and Words

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Subject: Counting Characters and Words
From: Thomas Brand <brand@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:34:54 +0200

Hello dear XSL-List reader

i'm trying to achieve the following:

-count number of characters in different elements and print the sum of all

<xsl:for-each select"paragraph">
	<!--number of chars only in this paragraph-->
	<xsl:value-of select"string-length(.)"/>
</xsl:for-each>



as we know, the value of variables can't be changed after initialisation to avoid side-effects. so i cannot make a loop over the elements and add the result of string-length(..) to a var. is there way to do it? i thought of concatenating first all element contents to one, and then call string-length(..) on this element. how can i concatenate an unknown number of elements (text) to one string? or would named-templates help?

any help is highly appreciated, thanks

thomas

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Counting Characters and Words Thomas Brand - Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:24:08 -0400 (EDT) <= David Carlisle - Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:50:57 -0400 (EDT) Thomas Brand - Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:01:06 -0400 (EDT) David Carlisle - Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:25:18 -0400 (EDT)

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