[xsl] Counting occurences of a character in a string

Subject: [xsl] Counting occurences of a character in a string
From: "Christian Roth" <roth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:01:36 +0200
Hello,

in XSLT 2, is there an easier or more efficient way to count the
occurrences of a certain character (here: 'X') in a string $s than

string-length( string-join( tokenize( $s, "[^X]+" ), "" ) )

?

I'm sure there must be, I just don't see it at the moment...

-Christian

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