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Hi Spencer, > <a> > <b id="new"> > <f>new</f> > <c id="new"> > <d id="old">hi</d> > </c> > </b> > <b id="new"> > <f>new</f> > <c id="old"> > <d id="new">hi</d> > </c> > </b> > <b id="old"> > <f>new</f> > <c id="old"> > <d >new</d> > </c> > </b> > <b id="old"> > <f>old</f> > <c id="old"> > <d >new</d> > </c> > > </b> > </a> > > for this file i used an expression this way > > <xsl:for-each select="a"> There's only one a element. > <xsl:variable name="mcid"><xsl:value-of select="@mcID"/></xsl:variable> This has no mcID attribute, so $mcid is empty. > <xsl:value-of select="count(b[contains(new,text())])"/> > > this gives me a correct value What do you define as "correct"? 0? 4? something else? This expressions counts all the b children whose string-value of the first text child is contained in the string-value of the child new. Well, in your case that means: is the string "
 " (text()) contained in the empty string (new)? (because b has no children of type new). This condition is false for all bs, the result should be 0. Or - different interpretation - you're using msxml, which strips whitespace-only text nodes, i.e. text() evaluates to the empty string. In this case the condition is always true, the result should be 4. > where as the below one does not give the correct value > <xsl:value-of select="count(c[contains(new,d)])"/> Well, the result is 0, and this is definitivly correct, because a has no c children at all. It has c descendants. > what is wrong in my statement > sorry for the ignorance cause i am new to xslt stuff If you could verbally explain what do you want to count then maybe someone will provide an XPath for you. Cheers, Oliver /-------------------------------------------------------------------\ | ob|do Dipl.Inf. Oliver Becker | | --+-- E-Mail: obecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | | op|qo WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~obecker | \-------------------------------------------------------------------/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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