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RE: <b>Following text<br/>
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] <b>Following text<br/>
- From: Kay Michael <Michael dot Kay at icl dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:22:13 -0000
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> But now I have a problem, the text can be like this DOM tree:
> <root>
> _______|_______
> | | | |
> text1 <b> text3 <br/>
> |
> text2
>
>
> Now I have to sum the string-length from text1, text2, text3 and test
> if the sum is less than 150.
There's no direct way in XSLT of summing an expression over a node-set,
unless the expression in question is the string-value of the nodes. It needs
a recursive named template.
As usual, there's a saxon extension function that will do it:
saxon:sum(.//text(), saxon:expression("string-length(.)"))
Mike Kay
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