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> <a> > <b attr="w1 w3 w6">...</b> > <b attr="w2 w12 w3 w7">...</b> > ... more <b>s here ... > </a> > > when processing an <a> element, i need to calculate the > maximum number of whitespace-separated words for any > "b/@attr" attribute. so just what you see above, the value > would be 4, based on that second <b> child of <a>. > > AFAICT, this will involve three steps: > > 1) collect the "b/@attr" attributes (easy) > 2) normalize space and word count each of those attribute values > (again, easy, stealing from kay, p. 527, the "word-count" > template :-) > 3) finding the maximum of those values You can count the words without recursive processing: $x := normalize-space(@attr) $y := translate(@attr, ' ', '') $wc := string-length($x) - string-length($y) +1 > > since, as i understand it, you can't have a node-set of just > numbers, Since numbers aren't nodes, how could you have a node-set containing numbers? In XPath 2.0 of course you can have sequences of strings or numbers which makes this kind of thing very much easier. Michael Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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