Re: generic method of getting element length

funny, I thought that this was a place to ask questions.

You have reaffirmed that some people have no social skills whatsoever. 
You have made everyone very
proud to have you as a frequent writer on this board.

Thank you for your input.

Chris Bayes wrote:
> 
> Edward,
> You lazy sod. Go read the f'ing spec http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
> 
> XML/XSL Portal
> http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml
> 
> >is that actually part of XPath?
> >
> >Wendell Piez wrote:
> >>
> >> Edward:
> >>
> >> At 06:27 PM 5/31/01, you wrote:
> >> >I have an element that is of type xsd:string  I want to test if it is
> >> >longer than a given vale, say 35.
> >>
> >> Ah. That's just string-length(.), an abbreviation for
> >> string-length(self::node()). Gets you the string length of the
> >context node.
> >>
> >> Nice return, Mike.
> >>
> >> --Wendell
> >>
> >> >Michael Kay wrote:
> >> > > What do you mean by "the length of an element"?
> 
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