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RE: XPath count function in JavaScript

Subject: RE: XPath count function in JavaScript
From: "Andrew Welch" <ajwelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:45:29 +0100
xpath html javascript
> Do you mean you want to use the result in JavaScript?
> 
> Then just use XSL to compute the count within some hidden 
> HTML form, then Javascript will have access to it when the 
> page is loaded in the browser, via the form object tree. Note 
> though that this approach is browser specific.

..thats overly complicated isn't it?  Why not just fill in the values:

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
  <head>
    <script>
      var count = <xsl:value-of select="count(//whatever)"/>;<xsl:text/>
    </script>
  </head>
</html>
</xsl:template>

Gives:

<script>
  var count = n;
</script>

cheers
andrew

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