Re: How do I count number of nodes?

[Warren Hedley <w.hedley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

alex chang wrote:
> 
> It was actuallly putting the string {count(*)} as the value of colspan.

Which is the XSLT way of doing things.

> I did find something that works though:
>     <xsl:attribute
> name="COLSPAN"><xsl:eval>selectSingleNode("column-header").childNodes.length</xsl:eval></xsl:attribute>

Which isn't.

> This is using the XML DOM Reference from the microsoft site:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/psdk/xmlsdk/xmls6g53.htm
> 
> A quick question about this XML DOM Reference- is the syntax in there
> specific to Microsoft and IE? Or can this be used with any parser? It
> doesn't say on they site...

Yes. No. This is one of the most annoying things about Microsoft's XSL
effort - the fact that they don't plaster their site with disclaimers
declaring that the examples they've got don't actually conform to the
spec. This is a constant source of confusion for XSLT coder-wannabe's.

Are you sure you can't switch to server side XSLT?

-- 
Warren Hedley


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