Subject: RE: [xsl] getting the longest text node From: "Lars Huttar" <lars_huttar@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:21:34 -0600 |
Wendell Piez wrote: > > Florian, > > There's an idiom for this kind of thing. It was first invented by ... > someone who no doubt reads this list! > > <xsl:template match="root"> > <xsl:for-each select="//apple"> > <xsl:sort select="string-length(.)" order="descending"/> I think you need to add data-type="number" Otherwise, a string of length 2 would be preferred over a string of length 10. > <xsl:if test="position() = 1"> > <xsl:value-of select="."/> > </xsl:if> > </xsl:for-each> > </xsl:template> > As for "most performant and best" I'm rather doubt that I can > guarantee > that. :-> I don't know either! But any other solution I could think of seemed to be doing about the same thing. Lars XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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