Subject: Re: Computing string-value of nodesets From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 01:14:28 GMT |
> The problem is that string([nodeset]) will return the string value of the but <xsl:variable name="x"><xsl:copy-of select="[nodeset]"/></xsl:variable> <xsl:value-of select="string-length(string($x))"/> probably does what you want. > So is there some way to construct a equivalent of sum(), but one that works > on string values of a nodeset? simple cases you can get by as above, but usually you have to use a node-set extension function for this sort of thing (until xslt 1.1) for instance if you wanted to apply normalize-space to each of your nodes in the node set before computing your average, you'd do something like <xsl:variable name="x"> <xsl:for-each select="[nodeset]" > <x><xsl:value-of select="string-length(normalize-space(.))"/> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:variable> <xsl:value-of select="sum(xt:node-set($x)/x)"/> David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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