Hi Mukul,

Interesting idea. However I am stuck between two middlewares.  I have to
use plain XSLT's. There won't be any java involved.

Actually, I read the customers req. and it says lengths of the
characters are good enough. So I don't need to know the length in bytes.

So if I would use string-length() like this

<xsl:value-of select="string-length(*)"/>

I would get just the length of the first value.
I wish I could use it like that:

<xsl:value-of select="string-length(<xsl:copy-of select="*"/>)"/>

But this is not possible.
Any ideas how to count the length of a document character by character?

Many thanks,
Houman




-----Original Message-----
From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 August 2005 12:28
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Measure the length of an XML document in bytes

Probably you can write an extension function in Java using
java.io.File class to get the file size. I can see a method called
public long length() in JDK docs (j2sdk1.4.2_03)..

The documentation says:
Returns:
The length, in bytes, of the file denoted by this abstract pathname,
or 0L if the file does not exist

Regards,
Mukul

On 8/4/05, Khorasani, Houman <houman_khorasani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How can I measure the length of a whole XML document in bytes in XSLT
> 1.0?
>
> Many thanks,
> Houman