Subject: RE: [xsl] Counting number of characters of sibling text node From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 08:52:39 +0100 |
> > Mike: > > As I understand it, what I'm doing here is constructing an > RTF and then > asking for its string-length. Sorry, yes, I read it too quickly. Actually, it's a rather neat solution - though not necessarily very efficient! > > 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? Yes, it should work in both XSLT 1.0 and XSLT 2.0. Michael Kay Software AG home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > 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 > >home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx > >work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > XSL-List info and archive: > http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > > > ====================================================================== > Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 > Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 > Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML > and XML > ====================================================================== > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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