Re: Getting a longest node

Sebastian and all--

At 04:27 PM 1/17/00 +0000, you wrote:
>I did something like this;  put all the values into a RTF,
>convert it to a node-set, sort it numerically, and find the
>last one. I append my (uncommented) code which attempts to work out
>column widths for a table by adding together all the cell lengths in
>each column and working out proportions

That's pretty cool, I'll try it. Am I going to need the extension function
to get access to the value? That could trouble the purist (or portability
freak).

>  <xsl:value-of select="sum(xt:node-set($cells)/cell)"/>

Heh. Still puzzling--
Wendell

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