XSL: count function

September 16, 200520 yr

Does anyone know how to use the count function within xsl?

I know have the following structure:

The xml should show something like:

But how?

Thanks in advance.

Kip

September 16, 200520 yr

The xml should show something like:

The above is not xml. Just like HTML, attributes must be in this form:

or

some value

No spaces in element or attribute names. One space after an element name before an (optional) named attribute (or space-separated multiple attributes). You cannot have an attribute value (="6") with no attribute name.

is correct (or would be, but you forgot the quote), the rest is not.

You could have:

you're the best

the other 9 titles

the other 5 items

Or something similar:

ABCD

you're the best

the other 9 titles

the other 5 items

We don't know what xml exactly you are trying to produce; there's more than one way to do the above. But what you posted is not valid xml.

September 16, 200520 yr

Author

Hi Fenton,

Thank you for your quick reply.

I now see that I wasnt clear enough.

In the xsl I want to use the count function that counts the number of childs of and all values of within .

I tried something like:

September 16, 200520 yr

Kip,

this can not work.

You try to count on a node-set that you are generating in the very moment, i.e. on an output node-set.

The count() function is defined for input node-sets, i.e. existing node-sets only.

But anyway, if I understand correctly what you want to do, you don't need the count() function for your ITEMS. If it worked in your case, it would just be the number of records, wouldn't it?

This information is just in the FOUND attribute of your RESULTSET tag in the FMPXMLRESULT grammar.

So,

The number of titles, however, per item must be counted.

The final result would be, when we take the correct remarks of Fenton (you MUST produce well-formed and valid XML) into account:

Edited September 16, 200520 yr by Guest
code changed after remarking comments of Fenton