Re: getting the longest text node

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="//orange">
   <xsl:sort data-type="number" order="descending" select="string-length(.)"/>
  </xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="orange">
 <xsl:if test="position()=1">
 <LongString type="{name()}" string-length="{string-length(.)}">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 </LongString>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

hi!

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?

thanks alot!

ciao!
florian

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Rick Taylor
XML Developer
PPDM Association