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Hello All, Sorry for the confusion. I want to find number of elments not tags. Thanks for input. I can find the number of element using count() function. But i didn't get understand, does this mean apply-templates call return number of elements matched the select criteria? Thanks and Regards, Chandu On 12/1/05, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > position() gives the position of a node in the current node list, which in > this case is the set of nodes selected by the apply-templates call, which is > a list of length one, because you only selected the last one. > > xsl:number would probably suit your purpose better. > > You're not trying to count the number of tags, of course, but the number of > elements. Most elements have two tags, a start tag and an end tag. > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chandrasekhar A [mailto:chandrashekarrvt@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: 01 December 2005 06:47 > > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: position > > > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to find number of tags in my xml using XSLT. > > The XSLT is > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" > > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" > > xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"> > > <xsl:output method="text"/> > > <xsl:template match="/"> > > <xsl:apply-templates > > select="dataroot/ReferenceTaskDb[last()]"/> > > </xsl:template> > > <xsl:template match="ReferenceTaskDb"> > > <result> <xsl:value-of select="position()"/></result> > > </xsl:template> > > </xsl:stylesheet> > > > > It is returning 1. What is the wrong here ? > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Chandu
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