Re: counting element characters

Dimitre Novatchev wrote:

  Hi

> <xsl:template match="a">
>    <xsl:variable name="c" as="text()*">
>            <xsl:for-each select="descendant::p">
>               <xsl:value-of  select="string-length(.)"/>
>            </xsl:for-each>
>    </xsl:variable>
>    <xsl:value-of select="sum($c)"/>
> </xsl:template>

  Which can be spelled as following, in order to prevent creating
useless text nodes:

    <xsl:template match="a">
       <xsl:value-of select="sum(.//p/string-length(.))"/>
    </xsl:template>

  Regards,

--drkm



















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