Hi All

How can I count the total no.of children in XSLT from the below xml file??

thx
suri

XML FILE
========

<main>
    <father>
        <child>sam</child>
        <child>debi</child>
    <father>
    <father>
        <child>donna</child>
        <child>kathy</child>
        <child>usher</child>
    <father>
    <father>
    <father>
    <father>
        <child>donna</child>
    <father>
</main>

I guess count(//father/child) should give me the result.

But, I want to set a counter after displaying the every 5 children name I need to display the dotted line '--------'

thx for the help
suri

count(//child)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

>But, I want to set a counter after displaying the every 5 children name I need to display the dotted line

<xsl:for-each select="//child">
  <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
  <xsl:if test="position() mod 5 = 1">---------</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Sorry for not being clear.

How can I display only first childeren names?

thx
Suri

Again there was a typo...Sorry about that...

My question was How can I show first 5 childeren's names.

thx

Got you....

Thx alot Michael Kay
suri