RE: Counting occurences of a character in a string

> From: Christian Roth [mailto:roth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 April, 2008 18:02
> To: XSL List
> Subject:  Counting occurences of a character in a string
>
> Hello,
>
> in XSLT 2, is there an easier or more efficient way to count
> the occurrences of a certain character (here: 'X') in a string $s than
>
> string-length( string-join( tokenize( $s, "[^X]+" ), "" ) )
>

How about string-length( replace( $s, '[^X]', '' ) ) which doesn't
go through all that splitting and joining.  Still I think someone
can improve on my solution too.

Andy.