Re: [xsl] count() function

Subject: Re: [xsl] count() function
From: "Raffaele Sena" <raff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 09:44:51 -0800
Maybe

<xsl:varible name="countletter"
  select="count(title[starts-with($alph, text())])"/>

-- Raffaele

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james walker" <jameswalkerandy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 2:11 AM
Subject: [xsl] count() function


> I am using a count function to count th enumber of <title> tgas in an xml
> file which contain a certain starting letter.
> e.g. $alph = 'A'
> <xsl:variable name="countletter" select="count(number of titles with a
> starting letter of a)"/>
> <xsl:if test="($countletter > 0)">
> <p><xsl:value-of select="$alph"/></p>
> </xsl:if>
>
> How would i write the test case for the xsl:if?
> would u do some sort of string comparison like
not(starts-with($countletter,
> '0'))??
>
> i can't use keys as the xml  is coming from multiple files.
> cheers
> james
>
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