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Re: Measure the length of an XML document in bytes

2005-08-04 05:40:40
Khorasani, Houman wrote:
How can I measure the length of a whole XML document in bytes in XSLT
1.0?

It's not possible. XSLT does not operate on the original byte stream, only on a data model formed from the document. The number of bytes originally used is not available and not uniquely computable (In fact, there are an infinite number of answers.)


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