Thanks Mike,
you gave me the ideea of using xalan extensions, so I used 'toknize'
function that returns a node-set from a string with some delimiters.
It works now.

Florin


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike Brown
Sent: 15 May 2002 21:14
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  how to apply sum to a comma delimited list


I wrote:
>     <xsl:when test="function-available('exsl:node-set')">
>       <xsl:value-of select="count(exsl:node-set($list)/dummyElement)"/>
>     </xsl:when>

Sorry, I was testing something here.
Of course I meant sum(), not count().

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