Cool, thanks a lot. I didn't thought about the name()-function.

So if I understand name() well, both expressions should give the same
result?

1. select="count(someNode)"
2. select="count(*[name() = someNode])"

What do you mean with "namespace-safe"? Can you give a situation in which
the given solution would not work?

Thanks a lot for your time,

--
Peter


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