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Re: How do I count number of nodes?
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- Subject: Re: How do I count number of nodes?
- From: Warren Hedley <w dot hedley at auckland dot ac dot nz>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:36:22 -0400
- CC: alex chang <shortestpath at hotmail dot com>
- Organization: Department of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland
- References: <20000628163126.65118.qmail@hotmail.com>
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alex chang wrote:
>
> It was actuallly putting the string {count(*)} as the value of colspan.
Which is the XSLT way of doing things.
> I did find something that works though:
> <xsl:attribute
> name="COLSPAN"><xsl:eval>selectSingleNode("column-header").childNodes.length</xsl:eval></xsl:attribute>
Which isn't.
> 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...
Yes. No. This is one of the most annoying things about Microsoft's XSL
effort - the fact that they don't plaster their site with disclaimers
declaring that the examples they've got don't actually conform to the
spec. This is a constant source of confusion for XSLT coder-wannabe's.
Are you sure you can't switch to server side XSLT?
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Warren Hedley
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