Assuming that all your <A12> were supposed to read <A12/>, you appear to
be counting elements and ignoring all other nodes, in which case the
answer is count(//*).

But from the way you phrase your question, you could probably do with
reading the data model spec a bit more carefully and learning how the
XSLT/XPath tree model works.

Michael Kay

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> Dear friends,
> 
> I want to count the number of elements and nodes in a xml 
> with an xsl. can u say a way6 to do it.
> 
> <A>
>      <A1>
>                     <A12>
>           <A12>
>           <A12>
>      </A1>
>                 <A2>
>           <A12>
>           <A12>
>      </A2>
> ....
> </A>
> 
> i should get a sum in this case of  8 ie sum of nodes and 
> childs .. how to get this done .
> 
> rgds
> Peter Ivan
> 
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