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Re: Counting Nodes
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:50:07 GMT
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Counting Nodes
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> Is the following expression legal?
No, because // is not legal as a complete expression, and therefore as
an argument to |
> The main stumbling block being the "//" by itself.
exactly.
> Usually, they work separately (i.e. count(//) and count(//@*) ),
the second of those is fine, if the first one is not being reported as
an error report it as a bug in whichever processor you are using.
You want //node()
> but there are sections which suggest that I can use it as a
> node set,
no it's short for
/descendent-or-self/node()/
but that is not legal on its own either as it has a trailing /
David
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