Re: getting the longest text node

<xsl:template match="root">
  <xsl:for-each select="//apple">
    <xsl:sort select="string-length(.)" order="descending"/>
    <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

I hope that helps--
Wendell

i have a xml document like this:

<root>
  <foo>
    <apple>a</apple>
    <orange>oiasd</orange>
  </foo>
  <foo>
    <apple>hellooooo</apple>
    <orange>test</orange>
  </foo>
</root>

what would be the most performant and best way to get
the longest text of a apple node, and the longest text
of a orange node?

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