I'm afraid it's not clear to me either from your English description or from
your incorrect code exactly what you are trying to achieve (Or more
accurately, the guess I would make from your English description would have
no mention of any variable called $compiler.warn.loc, so I assume it would
probably be wrong). An example of input and output would help.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharma, Jaikumar [mailto:jaikumar.sharma@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 August 2007 14:41
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  counting number of occurances in elements
> 
> I want to count number of occurances in elements in under a 
> particular node in XML document and store the value of same 
> in a variable :
>  
> <xsl:variable name="compiler.warn.count"
> select="count(substring($compiler.warn.loc,2,5)='WARNING')" />
>  
> But I get the following error message when try to see the 
> results in browser :
>  
> Expression does not return a DOM
> node.-->count(substring($compiler.warn.loc,2,5)='WARNING')<--
>  
> Does somebody know, how this can be accomplished ?
>  
> Thanks for any help!
>  
> Regards.
> 
> 
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