http://www.xsltfunctions.com/xsl/functx_word-count.html

if its xslt 2.0 then u have all the useful regex ways as possible or
at worst http://www.exslt.org/regexp/

hth, James Fuller

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Mark <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been floundering around in the xsl-list archives for a while looking
> for a way to get a listing and count of all the words in every instance of
a
> specific element. Thousands of hits, but I think I am not using the correct
> search terms. I know what I want must be in the archive, but I just can't
> seem to narrow my search enough to find it.
>
> Given a fragment like (and concentrating on the moment on the lang="en"
> element):
> <Description>
>   <Data lang="cz"> bmla skvrnka na spodnm casti pmsmene L ve SLOV</Data>
>   <Data lang="en">white splotch on the lower bar on the L in SLOV</Data>
> </Description>
> <Description>
>           <Data lang="cz">barevn} bod pod dolnmm ramem vlevo od VHB</Data>
>           <Data lang="en">dot on the lower frame to the left of VHB</Data>
> </Description>
>
> I would like to create a list like the one below (it would be nice to be
> able to use a "stop word" list also so as to not count stuff like "on",
> ""the", etc.):
> bar        1
> dot        1
> frame    1
> in           1
> L            1
> left         1
> lower     2
> of           1
> on          3
> SLOV    1
> splotch 1
> the        3
> to         1
> white    1
>
> Mark