Re: [xsl] length of string from a set of nodes.

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Fred Christian wrote:
> I was able to get this to work, but while reading about it, I see all 
> these little tips and recommendations regarding being efficient and not 
> creating nodes when you only need strings.
>
> In this code my goal was meet of deciding if the length of all the text 
> concatenated together is greater than 30.
>    <xsl:variable name="strings" as="xs:string"><xsl:value-of 
> select="answers"/></xsl:variable>

Couldn't you simply do
  <xsl:variable name="strings" as="xs:string" 
select="string-join(answers, ' ')"/>
?

>    <xsl:variable name="slen" as="xs:integer"><xsl:sequence 
> select="string-length($strings)"/></xsl:variable>

That could certainly be done as
  <xsl:variable name="slen" as="xs:integer" 
select="string-length($strings)"/>


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