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Re: Coding aroung a "Cannot convert zero-length string

Subject: Re: Coding aroung a "Cannot convert zero-length string to an integer" erro
From: "Colin Adams" <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:08:03 +0100
Re:  Coding aroung a "Cannot convert zero-length string
> > Apart from not needing to do it,  Mike Kay has suggested that
> > string-length is relatively expensive because of the need to
> > sort out surrogate pairs before counting characters.

Well, that is the case for Saxon, but there is no requirement to implement strings using UTF-16. XSLT processors that don't use UTF-16 as their internal encoding won't suffer from this expense.


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