finding largest sting length in xml nodes using XSLT

[bharath_pepala]

hi friends,
I have the following xml file.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<lifesequencechart>
<table rows="15">
<lifeline id="1">obj1</lifeline>
<lifeline id="2">obj2222222</lifeline>
<lifeline id="3">obj3332</lifeline>
<lifeline id="4">obj4444</lifeline>
</table>

</lifesequencechart>

My question is how to find out the largest string length of <lifeline> using XSLT.
Can anyone help me how to find out this string length??

thanks,
Bharath

[xacobea]

do you search something like list?...

<xsl:apply-templates select="lifeline">
<xsl:sort select="string-length()" order="descending" data-type="number" />
</xsl:apply-templates>

...or only one single number? then you have to create a new xml (as far i don't know how one can copy a part of your old one and e.g. sort another part - maybe someone can help?):

<xsl:template match="/lifesequencechart">
<xsl:element name="root">
<xsl:apply-templates select="table/lifeline">
<xsl:sort select="string-length()" order="descending" data-type="number" />
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="lifeline">
<xsl:element name="newLifeline">
<xsl:value-of select="string-length()" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

and now you use the resulting xml and the following xsl:

<xsl:template match="/root">
<xsl:value-of select="lifeline[1]" />
</xsl:template>

[george]

Hi Bharath,

Code: Select all

    <xsl:template match="/">

        <xsl:value-of select="string-length(

            lifesequencechart/table/lifeline/text() [

                string-length(.) > string-length(../following-sibling::lifeline/text())

            ]

        )"/>

    </xsl:template>

Should print the max length.

Best Regards,
George