Hi Peter,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        Elements: <xsl:value-of select="count(//*)"/>
        Elements and text nodes: <xsl:value-of
select="count(//*|//text())"/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
George
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<oXygen/> XML Editor - http://www.oxygenxml.com/


----- Original Message -----
From: <Peter_Ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:10 AM


>
> 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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>


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