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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: generic method of getting element length
 Anyone know of a generic method og getting the length of an element within a transformation? Assuming you want the name of the context node, string-length(name()) or string-length(local-name()) if you want to prevent namespaces from appearing. (string-length(local-name(..)) would get the length of the name of the parent, etc.) I know that some brands of XSLT have a length method, but is there a way that would work for all brands? There is only one brand of XSLT; these functions will work in all conformant implementations. That-which-Microsoft-has-called-XSL (their implementation of www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl) is only arguably a "brand" of an obsolete version of XSL (nice word though), and never was, nor ever will be, XSLT. I doubt that the expressions above will work with it, since they're XPath, and XPath didn't exist in December 1998 when it came out. Good luck, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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