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RE: The longest node in a node set
- From: TSchutzerWeissmann at uk dot imshealth dot com
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:41:59 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] The longest node in a node set
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Hello Antonio,
> I did not take into account the fact that longer contents are splitted
> into two rows at spaces. That changes the formula: I would
> have to find
> "the length of the longest word contained in an element".
> That would not
> change a lot Jeni's recursive approach, except that it would
> have to be
> douoble-recursive to find the length of the words. But never
> mind. This
> is certainly not the best solution, as I have a very irregular
> distribution of maximum "word" lengths. So the final result
> would not be
> appealing.
Does your table have lots of rows, and are you going to change the column
widths on a row-by-row basis?
I was thinking maybe you could work out the word-lengthiness of content by
using the ratio of its total string-length and the string-length of all its
non-whitespace characters. That would give you a (rough) idea of which
content needed the most elbow-room.
it sounds like you'll have a bit of a fight on your hands regardless...
Tom Weissmann
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