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RE: [xsl] Coding aroung a "Cannot convert zero-length string to an integer" error

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> Apart from not needing to do it,  Mike Kay has suggested that 
> string-length is relatively expensive because of the need to 
> sort out surrogate pairs before counting characters.

True, but in Saxon, [string-length(x) = 0] doesn't count the characters, it
simply checks whether the string is empty or not.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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