RE: [xml-dev] XPath, count function

["Dimitri Glazkov" <Dimitri.Glazkov@gandalfdev.com>]

Not directly using selectNodes. However, you can still accomplish this
by creating a simple XSLT transformation and retrieving its result. I
did that in DOM Level 3 Xpath implementation for Internet Explorer. You
are welcome to study the code here:

http://glazkov.com/blog/archive/2004/04/06/168.aspx

:DG< 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomas Olsson [mailto:tomas.olsson@soderhamn.mail.telia.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:16 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] XPath, count function
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I wonder if its possible to use the count function of XPath 
> in JavaScript. 
> I'm using MSXML.
> 
> I want to count the number of elements with the attribute 
> fnamn="Tomas" and 
> return the number:
> 
> count(//*[@fnamn="Tomas"]))
> 
> Is it possible to use that expression in a function in JavaScript and 
> return the number or do I have to use the selectNodes() and check the 
> number of nodes in the nodeList?
> 
> /Tomas
> 
> 
> 
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