RE: Conditional counting

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>There are several possibilities, depending on your exact problem.
>If your extension methods produce a node-set with node for each table row,
>as yoursecond template suggests, you can try
>
> <xsl:if test="$gunk = 'x''">
>   <xsl:variable name="result" select="myExt.method1(*)"/>
>   <table border="1">
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="$result" mode="x" />
>   </table>
>   <xsl:value-of select="count($result)"/> rows generated.
> </xsl:if>
> <xsl:if test="$gunk != 'x'">
>   <table border="1">
>     <xsl:variable name="result" select="myExt.method2(*)"/>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="$result" mode="x" />
>   </table>
>   <xsl:value-of select="count($result)"/> rows generated.
> </xsl:if>
>
>Note that you'll have to distribute a lot of stuff into the
>conditional statements, because of the way variables are scoped.

</snip>

Yes, that thought had occurred to me but I ruled it out for exactly that
reason.

<snip>

>Be warned this will also count rows of nested tables, you may have to
>fiddle with the expression a bit if you experience difficulties
>(xx:node-set($result)/tr might work, but i'm not sure).

</snip>

There won't be nested tables so either case should work.  Jeni also
suggested this solution, it seem like the most viable.


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