Re: [oXygen-user] Author : Number of characters

11 May 2010


      Hi Isabelle,

You can just use the following XPath expression:
sum(//p/string-length(normalize-space()))

The stylesheet works ok for me, it gives as output:
"The document contains 16 characters."

Best Regards,
George
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On 5/10/10 6:18 PM, I. Rogie wrote:
...
An xml example :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<NewsMLwk>
       <NewsItemId>WK20100201-01</NewsItemId>
       <OfInterestTo FormalName="WKF"/>
       <HeadLine/>
       <DateLine/>
       <body.content>
             <p>Par<aut/></p>
             <p>PARIS, 2010 -</p>
       </body.content>
</NewsMLwk>
With this xsl :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
     <xsl:template match="/">
              <xsl:text>The document contains</xsl:text>
                 <xsl:call-template name="add">
<xsl:with-param name="nodes" select="//p/text()"/>
                 </xsl:call-template>
                <xsl:text>  characters.</xsl:text>
     </xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="add">
               <xsl:param name="sum" select="0"/>
               <xsl:param name="nodes" select="/.."/>
                <xsl:choose>
                     <xsl:when test="not($nodes)">
                     <xsl:value-of select="$sum"/></xsl:when>
                     <xsl:otherwise>
                         <xsl:call-template name="add">
                           <xsl:with-param name="sum" select="$sum +
string-length(normalize-space($nodes[1]))"/>
                           <xsl:with-param name="nodes"
select="$nodes[position() != 1]"/>
                         </xsl:call-template>
                     </xsl:otherwise>
                 </xsl:choose>
        </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Le 10/05/10 17:06, « George Cristian Bina »<george@oxygenxml.com>  a écrit :
...
Dear Isabelle,
You can use also the XPath evaluation (see the XPath edit box in the
toolbar). To get the normalized text from the document you can use
normalize-space(/*)
and for the number of characters in this text use
string-length(normalize-space(/*))
For understanding the problem you have with the stylesheet please post
also a sample XML file together with the stylesheet that you use.
Best Regards,
George