Re: [xsl] Number of characters in document

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

Mike Brown wrote:
> But where there's a will, there's a way. *If* you know the name of
> the file and you don't mind hard-coding it in your stylesheet, you can
> make the file be a general entity which you can refer to in a variable
> assignment, and then you take the string-length() of the variable.

I should add that this approach will still be subject to error. Character
references and entity references in the file will be expanded before XSLT
processing begins. Also, whitespace-only text nodes will not be counted
because such nodes are stripped from the stylesheet before processing
begins.

   - Mike
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