[oXygen-user] Recusrive COUNT of specific elements in XSL 2.0

[G. Ken Holman]

0At 2012-04-18 17:53 +0100, McGibbney, Lewis John wrote:
>One requirement is for me to count instances of images within a 
>corpus of documents, therefore I need to get the # of images per document.
>
>I'm trying to do
>
><TotalImages value="I wish to copy the result of the below xsl:value-of here">
>   <xsl:value-of select="count(SOMETHING[.])"/>
></TotalImages>

You need to use an attribute value template with brace brackets:

   <TotalImages value="{XPath expression}"/>

>I know that XSLT 2.0 counts in sequences, therefore I'm hoping that 
>at least my [.] is correct. As the image elements are scattered 
>throughout the DOM structure so using XPath predicates is not how I 
>wish to do this.

But XPath allows one to search very easily through the entire 
document structure.

>We all know the typical occurrence of the relevant element --> <img 
>src="blah blah" style="blahblah" etc/>
>
>Thank you in advance for any suggestions and apologies for the 
>frustratingly trivial question ;0)

Can you try something along the lines of:

   <TotalImages value="{count(//img)}"/>

I don't know if you are using namespaces in your source or not, so 
the above might have to change.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . Ken


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