Re: [xsl] Counting the number of elements within and outputting a variable holding analyze-string results wrapped by elements in a for-each

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Alex Muir wrote:

> <xsl:variable name="varAnalyzeStr" as="node()*">
>         <xsl:analyze-string select="parent::node()/content/text()"
>           regex="Y(\d+)Y">
>           <xsl:matching-substring>
>
>             <xsl:element name="section">
>               <xsl:attribute name="href" select="regex-group(1)"/>
>             </xsl:element>

Here you construct a 'section' element with 'href' attribute but not 
content.

>           </xsl:matching-substring>
>         </xsl:analyze-string>
>
>  </xsl:variable>
>
>
>       <xsl:choose>
>         <xsl:when test="not(empty($varAnalyzeStr))">
>         <xsl:element name="">
>              <xsl:attribute name="Count" select="count($varAnalyzeStr)"/>
>              <xsl:for-each select="$varAnalyzeStr">
>                 <xsl:value-of select="."/>

Here you do value-of of those empty 'section' element. Maybe you want 
xsl:copy-of select="." to copy those elements to the result tree.


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