RE: Measure the length of an XML document in bytes

You can't. XSLT only sees the document as a tree. The length in bytes is a
property of the original lexical XML, which XSLT never sees. For example,
the length in bytes depends on whether the original encoding was UTF-16 or
UTF-8, and it depends on whether ">" characters were represented as ">" or
as ">".

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Khorasani, Houman [mailto:houman_khorasani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 04 August 2005 11:37
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Measure the length of an XML document in bytes
> 
> How can I measure the length of a whole XML document in bytes in XSLT
> 1.0?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Houman