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Subject: RE: [xsl] generic method of getting element length
From: "Chris Bayes" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 21:36:21 +0100

Edward,
You lazy sod. Go read the f'ing spec http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath

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>is that actually part of XPath?
>
>Wendell Piez wrote:
>> 
>> Edward:
>> 
>> At 06:27 PM 5/31/01, you wrote:
>> >I have an element that is of type xsd:string  I want to test if it is
>> >longer than a given vale, say 35.
>> 
>> Ah. That's just string-length(.), an abbreviation for
>> string-length(self::node()). Gets you the string length of the 
>context node.
>> 
>> Nice return, Mike.
>> 
>> --Wendell
>> 
>> >Michael Kay wrote:
>> > > What do you mean by "the length of an element"?


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