> From: Jiang, Peiyun [mailto:Peiyun.Jiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:07 PM
> Subject:  XML file size from XSLT
> 
> 
> Is it possible to get the approximate XML file size from 
> XSLT? Is it posible
> to use some string functions to count the number of chars 
> under document
> element (though sounds terrible)?

You can't get a literal size of the file, because the XSLT processor doesn't
see a simple text file, but a tree of nodes.  However, you can use the XPath
function string-length() to get a character count of textual nodes.  Given
an XML input of

<document>
  <content>Some text</content>
  <content>Some other text</content>
</document>

The following XSLT stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:strip-space elements="document"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:value-of select="string-length(document)"/>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

will output 24.  Note that xsl:strip-space is used to remove all whitespace
nodes within the <document> element--if you omit it, then the result from
the sample input will be 31 (three newlines and four spaces that indent the
<content> elements).  This in no way corresponds to the physical size of the
XML file on your disk, but this may suit your purposes.

hth,
b.

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