RE: [xml-dev] xsl question

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>]

You need a recursive template for this. The logic is:

occs(x, s):
  if contains(x, s) 
  then 1 + occs(substring-after(x, s), s) 
  else 0

The XSLT 1.0 syntax, unfortunately, is rather wordier than this.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Esteban Pizzini [mailto:eplx2002@yahoo.com.ar] 
> Sent: 28 September 2004 16:17
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] xsl question
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to write a xsl script that counts all times an 
> attribute contains some text
> I use contain() and count(), but is it possible to count 
> elements that contains some value??
> I try somethins like this:
> <xsl:if 
> test="count(contains(document($ARCH_LNK_JJ)/Doc/Laes/JudDoc/Re
> f/@idproducto,$producto)) &gt; 0">
> 
> but I get an error... because contains returns a boolean value..
> 
> thank you!
> Esteban
> 
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