> But now I have a problem, the text can be like this DOM tree:
>         <root>
>    _______|_______
>   |     |    |    |
> text1  <b> text3 <br/>
>         |
>        text2
> 
> 
> Now I have to sum the string-length from text1, text2, text3 and test
> if the sum is less than 150.

Ignore my previous response, can't you just do string-length(.), with <root>
as the context node? The string-value of <root> is the concatenation of
text1, text2, and text3.

Mike Kay 

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