Re: Totalling A Set of Values

 <holiday date="120603" type="X" />

 > At the end of each department I need to total the number of X days. I
 > am hoping there is a nice elegant way to do this but I do not know
 > how. I do know I cannot incremement a variable because I tried this
 > and also read it. 

I think you just want
 select="count(employee[@department='sales']/holiday[@type='X'])
to get the sum of all holidays of that type by all emplyees in the sales
department.


David

(horrible format for dates by the way, only understandable in one
country, and not Y2K+100 compliant)

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