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With a match on "/" you select the root of your document so to speak, that is not the same as your root element.
with the <xsl:value-of select="string-length(child::*[1])"/> You say that you want the string-length of the returned concatenated string of your first root element.
I don't think you need the [1] for if wellformed XML, your xml only has one root element.
So the following would suffice:
</xsl:stylesheet>
cheers,
RH
At 08:38 AM 11/5/01 +0000, you wrote:
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Re: [xsl] counting characters in an XML document
Subject: Re: [xsl] counting characters in an XML document From: ronald heller <ronald@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 10:18:18 +0100 |
With a match on "/" you select the root of your document so to speak, that is not the same as your root element.
with the <xsl:value-of select="string-length(child::*[1])"/> You say that you want the string-length of the returned concatenated string of your first root element.
I don't think you need the [1] for if wellformed XML, your xml only has one root element.
So the following would suffice:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:value-of select="string-length(*)"/> </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
cheers,
RH
At 08:38 AM 11/5/01 +0000, you wrote:
The following appears to work:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:value-of select="string-length(child::*[1])"/> </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
///Peter
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That solution confuses me - I would have expected descendants to work, rather than child::*[1]. <xsl:value-of select="string-length(descendants)"/>
Can somebody comment on what is happening in this line?
Thanks
Robert Stuart
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