[xsl] Re: Finding the maximum number of nodes (Redux)

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I hate to resurrect this thread from
> http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200101/threads.html#00151
> but someone on another list asked a very similar question recently, to which
> i thought "you should be able to do that with XPath".
> 
> The question was "how to determine the number of columns in a table, to
> create the correct colspan='x' for a header?"

See:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2001-01/msg00354.html

One can also use a generic max() template for every possible max() problem:

http://www.vbxml.com/downloads/default.asp?id=v2001611171627

The "one XPath expression solution" is O(N x N) complex and should not be used for
large N-s.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.




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