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Re: [xsl] Finding the maximun number of nodes


Subject: Re: [xsl] Finding the maximun number of nodes
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 12:10:24 GMT

>    <xsl:if test="count(//table[@ID='2']/tr[count(td) >
> count(current()/td)]) = 0">


It's (almost?) always better to use
test="not(xxx)" rather than test="count(xxx)=0"
Unless your XSL system is particularly smart, the count() version
will force it to find every such node, so they can be counted,
but the not() version will allow it to stop after it finds the
first one.

David


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