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RE: counting characters in an XML document


Mike,

That XPath 2.0 addling is getting serious!

Will this be happening to the rest of us?

At 05:30 AM 10/25/01, you wrote:
> > Does anyone know how I can use XSL to count the number of
> > characters in an
> > XML document.
>
>If you're only interested in characters within text nodes, then
>
>count(string-length(/))

Nope -- this will get you an error since the argument of count() must be a 
node-set, and string-length() returns a number.

(Now, I know you know this, but I just don't want any credulous newbies to 
get confused.)

Cheers,
Wendell


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