RE: [xsl] Counting number of characters of sibling text node

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike:

As I understand it, what I'm doing here is constructing an RTF and then 
asking for its string-length. Won't the string length of a result tree 
fragment be the length of its value (i.e. the whole thing)?

Admittedly, when RTFs go away (in XSLT 2) I'd have to wrap the copied nodes 
in a wrapper in order to get the desired behavior; but won't this work in 
XSLT 1.0?

Any clarification you can shed on this would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Wendell

At 12:58 PM 5/22/2002, you wrote:
> >
> > But if you do
> >
> > <xsl:variable name="this-and-preceding-siblings">
> >    <xsl:copy-of select=".|preceding-sibling::node()"/>
> > </xsl:variable>
> > <xsl:value-of select="string-length($this-and-preceding-siblings)"/>
> >
> > you may get better results.
> >
> No you won't. string-length() works on the first node in the supplied
> node-set.
>
> Michael Kay
> Software AG
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