Counting 'empty' nodes

[dd]

Given the bolow sample, I need to count the elements <quick> with a child 'yes'. The result for this sample should, of couse, be '1', but I cannot figure out how to write the expression in the <xsl:template select="????"> I tried count(//quick/*) >0 which returns false...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dffob>
<destinations>
<dest>
<quick/>
</dest>
<dest>
<quick>yes</quick>
</dest>
</destinations>
</dffob>

 

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* dd wrote in comp.text.xml:

Given the bolow sample, I need to count the elements <quick> with a child 'yes'. The result for this sample should, of couse, be '1', but I cannot figure out how to write the expression in the <xsl:template select="????"> I tried count(//quick/*) >0

* only matches element nodes while "yes" is a text node. You can

count(//quick/text)

But that would also count

<quick> </quick>

So

count(//quick[.="yes"])

might be better.

 

[dd]

* dd wrote in comp.text.xml:

Given the bolow sample, I need to count the elements <quick> with a child 'yes'. The result for this sample should, of couse, be '1', but I cannot figure out how to write the expression in the <xsl:template select="????"> I tried count(//quick/*) >0

* only matches element nodes while "yes" is a text node. You can

count(//quick/text)

But that would also count

<quick> </quick>

So

count(//quick[.="yes"])

might be better.

Tried this also:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="count(//quick[. ='yes'])"/> </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Oxygen returns: value is not a node set

 

[dd]

* dd wrote in comp.text.xml:

Given the bolow sample, I need to count the elements <quick> with a child 'yes'. The result for this sample should, of couse, be '1', but I cannot figure out how to write the expression in the <xsl:template select="????"> I tried count(//quick/*) >0

* only matches element nodes while "yes" is a text node. You can

count(//quick/text)

But that would also count

<quick> </quick>

So

count(//quick[.="yes"])

might be better.

Tried this also:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="count(//quick[. ='yes'])"/> </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Oxygen returns: value is not a node set

Sorry, seems that count(//quick[. = 'yes']) does work.

Many thanks.

 

[Martin Honnen]

* dd wrote in comp.text.xml:

Given the bolow sample, I need to count the elements <quick> with a child 'yes'. The result for this sample should, of couse, be '1', but I cannot figure out how to write the expression in the <xsl:template select="????"> I tried count(//quick/*) >0

* only matches element nodes while "yes" is a text node. You can

count(//quick/text)

But that would also count

<quick> </quick>

So

count(//quick[.="yes"])

might be better.

Tried this also:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="count(//quick[. ='yes'])"/>

Well you need
<xsl:value-of select="count(//quick[. ='yes'])"/>
if you want to output the value. xsl:apply-templates tries to apply templates against the select attribute value and that has then indeed to be a nodeset.