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

[Geert Bormans <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The XSLT1 way?
string-length($s) - string-length(translate($s, 'X', ''))

At 00:01 2/04/2008, you 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]+" ), "" ) )
>
> ?
>
> I'm sure there must be, I just don't see it at the moment...
>
> -Christian