Subject: Re: How do I count number of nodes? From: Warren Hedley <w.hedley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:36:22 -0400 |
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 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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