Subject: [xsl] Re: Re: Re: RE: Counting number of characters of sibling text node From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 12:08:17 -0700 (PDT) |
Thanks a lot Wendell! I really learned something new. Cheers, Dimitre. Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com> wrote: Dimitre, Mike: At 02:15 PM 5/22/2002, Dimitre 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. ... >Both answers are not completely correct: > > -- Wendell's because he hasn't converted the RTF into a node-set > before applying the string-length() function on it. XSLT 11.1: "A variable may be bound to a result tree fragment instead of one of the four basic XPath data-types.... A result tree fragment is treated equivalently to a node-set that contains just a single root node. However, the operations permitted on a result tree fragment are a subset of those permitted on a node-set. An operation is permitted on a result tree fragment only if that operation would be permitted on a string.... When a permitted operation is performed on a result tree fragment, it is performed exactly as it would be on the equivalent node-set." > -- Mike's, because the variable contains not a (flat) node-set, but a >whole tree. ...which you can't query into (its being an RTF), but which you can get the length of (since it can be operated on as if node-set converted to a string). As for the technique, I've used it (though not this precise code) on one-or-another SVG-generating stylesheet. It works fine in Saxon. :-) Cheers, Wendell __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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