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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
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Counting Nodes
Often, rather than doing arithmetic on a set of nodes, you may simply want to know how many nodes there are (Figure 4.7).
x s l t ... Of these wonders, <xsl:value-of select=" count(ancient_wonders/wonder/ history/how_destroyed[. = 'earthquake'])" /> were destroyed by earthquake, <xsl:value-of select=" count(//how_destroyed[. = 'fire'])"/> were destroyed by fire, and <xsl:value-of select=" count(//wonder) - count(//how_destroyed)" /> is still standing. ...
Figure 4.7. In the first count() function I am using an absolute location path to return the number of wonders that were destroyed in an earthquake. In the last two, I used the // shortcut to return all nodes in the entire document that match the expression.
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Figure 4.8 Based on the XSLT from Figure 4.7, more than half the wonders were destroyed by earthquake.
To count nodes:
- Type count(.
- Then, type the path to the node set whose nodes should be counted.
- Finally, type ) to complete the function.