Subject: RE: XPath count function in JavaScript
From: "Andrew Welch" <ajwelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:45:29 +0100
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> Do you mean you want to use the result in JavaScript?
>
> Then just use XSL to compute the count within some hidden
> HTML form, then Javascript will have access to it when the
> page is loaded in the browser, via the form object tree. Note
> though that this approach is browser specific.
..thats overly complicated isn't it? Why not just fill in the values:
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<script>
var count = <xsl:value-of select="count(//whatever)"/>;<xsl:text/>
</script>
</head>
</html>
</xsl:template>
Gives:
<script>
var count = n;
</script>
cheers
andrew
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