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RE: The longest node in a node set
- From: DPawson at rnib dot org dot uk
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:20:45 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] The longest node in a node set
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Mike said:
> In XPath 2.0, the way you do this is:
>
> max(for $n in $nodeset return string-length($n))
>
> In Saxon 6.5.x, you can do it with an extension function:
>
> saxon:max($nodeset, saxon:expr('string-length(.)'))
>
> (Both of these give you the length of the longest node, not the node
> itself)
Is it just me, or does that seem to defeat the objective?
I would want the node, not its length?
Regards DaveP
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