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That solution confuses me (Query at the end ...) ==================================== Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 07:35:38 +0000 From: Peter Flynn <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: counting characters in an XML document Wendell Piez wrote: > Mike, > > That XPath 2.0 addling is getting serious! > > Will this be happening to the rest of us? > > At 05:30 AM 10/25/01, Tom Melkonian wrote: > >> > Does anyone know how I can use XSL to count the number of >> > characters in an >> > XML document. >> >> If you're only interested in characters within text nodes, then >> >> count(string-length(/)) > > > Nope -- this will get you an error since the argument of count() must be > a node-set, and string-length() returns a number. > > (Now, I know you know this, but I just don't want any credulous newbies > to get confused.) The following appears to work: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:value-of select="string-length(child::*[1])"/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> ///Peter ======= That solution confuses me - I would have expected descendants to work, rather than child::*[1]. <xsl:value-of select="string-length(descendants)"/> Can somebody comment on what is happening in this line? Thanks Robert Stuart XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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