Re: [xsl] generic method of getting element length

[Edward Kennedy <ekennedy at mitre dot org>]

is that actually part of XPath?

Wendell Piez wrote:
> 
> Edward:
> 
> At 06:27 PM 5/31/01, you wrote:
> >I have an element that is of type xsd:string  I want to test if it is
> >longer than a given vale, say 35.
> 
> Ah. That's just string-length(.), an abbreviation for
> string-length(self::node()). Gets you the string length of the context node.
> 
> Nice return, Mike.
> 
> --Wendell
> 
> >Michael Kay wrote:
> > > What do you mean by "the length of an element"?
> 
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