Re: ancestor counting

[Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 22 Sep 2000 18:03 GMT, David Carlisle wrote:
 > > So actually I want to know how many ancestors the branch has got.
 > > How can I do this?
 > 
 > count(ancestor::*)

That will get you the number of ancestor elements, but won't include
the root node, which is also an ancestor.  If you really want all of
the ancestors, try:

count(ancestor::node())

Regards,


Tony Graham
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