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Re: [xsl] counting element characters

2008-08-11 07:45:31
 Which can be spelled as following, in order to prevent creating
useless text nodes:

Sure Florent,

We both know better ways to write this.

In order to help people I am trying to concentrate on their *main*
problem (one at a time) so that they get the main message.

Teaching them how to write good XSLT is probably not too-realistic in
the context of an isolated thread and would never replace a more
systematic approach, based on reading "the books".


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Dimitre Novatchev
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Florent Georges 
<lists(_at_)fgeorges(_dot_)org> wrote:
Dimitre Novatchev wrote:

 Hi

<xsl:template match="a">
   <xsl:variable name="c" as="text()*">
           <xsl:for-each select="descendant::p">
              <xsl:value-of  select="string-length(.)"/>
           </xsl:for-each>
   </xsl:variable>
   <xsl:value-of select="sum($c)"/>
</xsl:template>

 Which can be spelled as following, in order to prevent creating
useless text nodes:

   <xsl:template match="a">
      <xsl:value-of select="sum(.//p/string-length(.))"/>
   </xsl:template>

 Regards,

--drkm



















     
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