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RE: Counting number of characters of sibling text node
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
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- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 13:27:09 -0400
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Counting number of characters of sibling text node
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Mike:
As I understand it, what I'm doing here is constructing an RTF and then
asking for its string-length. Won't the string length of a result tree
fragment be the length of its value (i.e. the whole thing)?
Admittedly, when RTFs go away (in XSLT 2) I'd have to wrap the copied nodes
in a wrapper in order to get the desired behavior; but won't this work in
XSLT 1.0?
Any clarification you can shed on this would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Wendell
At 12:58 PM 5/22/2002, you wrote:
> >
> > But if you do
> >
> > <xsl:variable name="this-and-preceding-siblings">
> > <xsl:copy-of select=".|preceding-sibling::node()"/>
> > </xsl:variable>
> > <xsl:value-of select="string-length($this-and-preceding-siblings)"/>
> >
> > you may get better results.
> >
>No you won't. string-length() works on the first node in the supplied
>node-set.
>
>Michael Kay
>Software AG
>home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
>work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
>
>
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