Subject: RE: Need to fill in number of output nodes...
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:41:40 +0100
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> <doc>
> <header>
> ...
> </header>
> <body>
> <data>
> <elem1/> <!-- actual names vary -->
> <elem2/>
> </data>
> <summary dataCount="2"/>
> </body>
> </doc>
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> The number of elements within <data> is variable. I need to
> calculate
> the dataCount attribute from the number of <data> elements.
> What is a
> good solution for this? I'd rather not use a second transform step
> unless absolutely necessary.
Three solutions:
(a) go back to the input document and calculate the information from
that
(b) a two-stage transformation
(c) cheat, by using saxon:assign or similar.
I would go for (b).
Michael Kay
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