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Subject: Re: Measure the length of an XML document in bytes
From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:40:40 -0400

Khorasani, Houman wrote:

How can I measure the length of a whole XML document in bytes in XSLT
1.0?

It's not possible. XSLT does not operate on the original byte stream, only on a data model formed from the document. The number of bytes originally used is not available and not uniquely computable (In fact, there are an infinite number of answers.)


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