Subject: [xsl] Re: RE: Counting number of characters of sibling text node From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:15:32 -0700 (PDT) |
> > > > 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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