Re: [xsl] Counting occurences of a character in a string

Subject: Re: [xsl] Counting occurences of a character in a string
From: "Manfred Staudinger" <manfred.staudinger@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:10:28 +0200
On 02/04/2008, Christian Roth <roth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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( $s, "[^X]+" ), "" ) )
>
string-length($s) - string-length(translate($s, 'X', ''))

Manfred

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