Hi,

You could use something like...

  <xsl:value-of select="string-length(ITEM/@cols) - 
                        string-length(translate(ITEM/@cols,',','')) +
1"/>

Hope this helps
Marrow 
http://www.marrowsoft.com - home of Xselerator (XSLT IDE and debugger)
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of john liao
Sent: 02 October 2002 17:36
To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  counting the number of tokens in a string?

Hi,

another newbie question. Is there an easy way to count
the number of commas in a string? Like this:

<ITEM cols="col1,col2,col3,col4"/>

I would like to print 4 for the number of columns in
my ITEM. I searched on tokenize() but most of the
references are about the existence of it.

Thanks,

J.L.

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