Your expression is

count (A or B or C or D or E) >= 4

But (A or B or C or D or E) is a boolean, and the count() of a single
boolean value is always 1.

Try count((boolean(A), boolean(B), boolean(C), boolean(D), boolean(E))[.])
>= 4

The unusual predicate [.] selects those booleans in the sequence that are
true.

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

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: russurquhart1@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:russurquhart1@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 April 2009 19:03
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Big long xpath, almost there, but not quite
> 
> 
> 
> I want to thank everybody for their help on this. Michael 
> Kay, thaks for your help very much. I entered the following 
> Xpath. It is getting there, but it still is not quite right.
> 
> //GenTable[count(entry[Emphasis[normalize-space(.) = 'Address 
> Offset' and @type='bold'] or 
> Emphasis[normalize-space(.)='Physical Address' and 
> @type='bold'] or Emphasis[normalize-space(.)='Instance' and 
> @type='bold'] or Emphasis[normalize-space(.)='Description' 
> and @type='bold'] or Emphasis[normalize-space(.)='Type' and 
> @type='bold'] ]) >= 4]
> 
> When i use this, as i would like at least 4 entry element 
> that match the conditions above, hopefully 5, i would think 
> this should do the trick and return the GenTable elements 
> that contain them.
> 
> When i run it, however, i get no GenTable elements. When i 
> remove the count() function, i get no GenTable elements. When 
> i change the 4 9the minimum match value, to something smaller 
> like 1) i get no GenTable elements. When i change the number 
> 4 to 0, i get ALL the GenTable elements.
> 
> I would have thought that removing the count() function would 
> have given me all the GenTable elements containing those 
> entry elements.
> 
> Could someone explain a little about this? The reasoning 
> seems sound, i just don't know why it is doing what it is!
> 
> thanks again,
> 
> 
> Russ