How to get the size of the child nodes.

eruditionist · November 7th, 2008, 11:23 AM

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ss>
    <id>
        <picture>image.jpg</picture>
        <text>sample text </text>
    </id>
    <id>
        <picture>image.jpg</picture>
        <text>sample text </text>
    </id>
    <id>
        <picture>image.jpg</picture>
        <text>sample text </text>
    </id>
    <id>
        <picture>image.jpg</picture>
        <text>sample text </text>
    </id>
    <id>
        <picture>image.jpg</picture>
        <text>sample text </text>
    </id>
    <id>
        <picture>image.jpg</picture>
        <text>sample text </text>
    </id>
</ss>

How do I get the total number of ids that are in this xml? for example according to this xml I want to get size = 6

samjudson · November 7th, 2008, 11:27 AM

The count() function is probably what you want.

Code:

<xsl:value-of select="count(/ss/id)"/>

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

eruditionist · November 7th, 2008, 11:59 AM

Perfect that works
Thank you guys