Re: [xsl] counting characters in an XML document

[ronald heller <ronald@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

With a match on "/" you select the root of your document so to speak, that 
is not the same as your root element.
with the <xsl:value-of select="string-length(child::*[1])"/> You say that 
you want the string-length of the returned concatenated string of your 
first root element.
I don't think you need the [1] for if wellformed XML, your xml only has one 
root element.

So the following would suffice:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                  version="1.0">

    <xsl:output method="text"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:value-of select="string-length(*)"/>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

cheers,

RH

At 08:38 AM 11/5/01 +0000, you wrote:
> The following appears to work:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>                   version="1.0">
>
>     <xsl:output method="text"/>
>     <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>
>     <xsl:template match="/">
>       <xsl:value-of select="string-length(child::*[1])"/>
>     </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> ///Peter
>
>
> =======
>
>
> That solution confuses me - I would have expected descendants to work,
> rather than child::*[1].
>       <xsl:value-of select="string-length(descendants)"/>
>
>
> Can somebody comment on what is happening in this line?
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert Stuart


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