<xsl:variable name="this-and-preceding-siblings">
  <xsl:copy-of select=".|preceding-sibling::node()"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="string-length($this-and-preceding-siblings)"/>

Cheers,
Wendell

Filipe Correia wrote:

Why not just
<xsl:value-of select="string-length() +
string-length(preceding-sibling::text())"/> ?

It works!! thanks!

Sorry for disapointing you, but that expression only works when you have no more than 2 text nodes, because string-length(nodeset) returns length of the first node string value in the nodeset, not a summarized length, of course.

--
Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International, Israel

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