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RE: counting characters in an XML document
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] counting characters in an XML document
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:32:16 -0400
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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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