Try

<xsl:value-of select="count(file[@type="txt"])"/> 

or

<xsl:value-of select="count(file[@type="'txt'"])"/> 

Your syntax is correct but I think it has something to do with string
comparison here.

--- c p <bugs75il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a XML file (see below) with a "file" nodes and
> I want to get a count of file nodes based on certain
> attributes.  I am using XSLT transformations on the
> XML to put them into HTML.
> 
> Here is the XML:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> <file type="txt" path="...."/>
> <file type="txt" path="...."/>
> <file type="doc" path="....."/>
> <file type="html" path="...."/>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> End result I want displayed on the screen is something
> like this:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> txt files: count = 2
> doc files: count = 1
> html files: count = 1
> total files: count = 4
> 
> How would I get this?  I can get the total file count
> by using: <xsl:value-of select="count(file)"/>.
> 
> To get the individual file counts I did something like
> this: <xsl:value-of
> select="count(file[@type='txt'])"/>  but it errored on
> me.  
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> C