Re: [xsl] calculate depth of an xml-tree

[Oleg Tkachenko <olegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Florian Bauer wrote:

> and now my 2nd (and hopefully last) question for today ...
>
> I have to write an xsl file, which calculates the maximal depth of an 
> input xml file.
>
> <abc>
>     <cde>
>         <efg/>
>         <asd/>
>     </cde>
>     <aaa/>
> </abc>
>
> => maxdepth = 3 ....
>
> I think I have to use a "for each" with sorting and increment a 
> variable, but I don't know how to do this (you see, I'm a big noob @ 
> xml/xsl :( ... )
Forget about incrementing a variable, there is no such thing in XSLT.
Sort all elements by number of ancestors and take the first one.
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:for-each select="//*">
            <xsl:sort select="count(ancestor::*)" data-type="number" 
order="descending"/>
            <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
                <xsl:value-of select="count(ancestor::*)+1"/>
            </xsl:if>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>

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Multiconn Technologies, Israel


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