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Re: RE: Counting number of characters of sibling text node
- From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:15:32 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: [xsl] Re: RE: Counting number of characters of sibling text node
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> >
> > 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.
Hi Mike and Wendell,
Both answers are not completely correct:
-- Wendell's because he hasn't converted the RTF into a node-set
before applying the string-length() function on it.
-- Mike's, because the variable contains not a (flat) node-set, but a
whole tree.
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
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