Re: How do I count number of nodes?

["alex chang" <shortestpath at hotmail dot com>]

It was actuallly putting the string {count(*)} as the value of colspan.
I did find something that works though:
    <xsl:attribute 
name="COLSPAN"><xsl:eval>selectSingleNode("column-header").childNodes.length</xsl:eval></xsl:attribute>

This is using the XML DOM Reference from the microsoft site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/psdk/xmlsdk/xmls6g53.htm

A quick question about this XML DOM Reference- is the syntax in there 
specific to Microsoft and IE? Or can this be used with any parser? It 
doesn't say on they site...

-alex


>From: Warren Hedley <w.hedley@auckland.ac.nz>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
>To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
>CC: alex chang <shortestpath@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: How do I count number of nodes?
>Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:38:45 -0400
>
>alex chang wrote:
> >
> > How do I cound the total number of children (this will be my x) of the
> > column-header element?
>
>Check out the XPath function count(). I seem to remember you're using
>IE5 MSXML1, so it may be called something else.
>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-count
>
>The following should do the trick.
>
><td valign="center" colspan="{count(*)}"> ... </td>
>
> > Also, should I add the number of upper-left elements
> > + the number of mh elements, or should I just take the total number of
> > elements under column-header, regardless of who they are?
>
>That depends what you want the output to look like. You
>can count the two element types separately.
>
><td valign="center"
>     colspan="{count(upper-left) + count(mh)}"> ... </td>
>
>--
>Warren Hedley
>
>
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