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RE: Counting number of characters of sibling text node
- From: "Andrew Welch" <awelch at piper-group dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 14:06:55 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Counting number of characters of sibling text node
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>What I want to do is to count the number os characters in a text node
and all previous >text nodes children of the current text node's parent.
For this xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<node>
xxx
<br/>
yyy
<br/>
zzzz
</node>
</root>
This xsl should do the trick:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node">
<xsl:variable name="theText">
<xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of
select="string-length(translate(normalize-space($theText),' ',''))"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Here I think its best to store all of the text() children of the node in
a variable. The text nodes may contain whitespace as well, so to get
rid of that use normalize-space() and then do a translate() to remove
the single white spaces that are left.
cheers
andrew
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