You need another of those recursive named templates that does, in effect
strlength($nodeset) = string-length($nodeset[1]) +
strlength($nodeset[position()>1])

Of course writing this in XSL is about 15 lines of code. There are many
examples of this pattern in the archives of this list.

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Karlsen [mailto:ThomasK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 December 1999 11:22
> To: 'XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: String-length
> 
> 
> Im trying to hold track over how many char. i'm sending to the output.
> 
> xml:
> <section>
>  <para>this is a test</para>
>  <para>this is a test</para>
>  <para>this is a test</para>
>  <para>this is a test</para>
> </section>
> 
> xsl:
> <template match="section">
>  <apply-templates />
> </template>
> 
> <template match="para">
>  This para contains: <xsl:value-of select="string-length()"/>
>  Total from para number 1 to <xsl:value-of select="position()"/>:
> <xsl:value-of select="string-length(preceding-sibling::para)"/>
>  <apply-templates />
> </template>
> 
> My question is how can I add the string-values for the para's that is
> already traversed?
> The preceding-sibling function only gives me the value of the 
> first para in
> the node-set.
> 
> Please help
> 
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