[oXygen-user] Author : Number of characters

[Radu Coravu]

Hi Isabelle,

We have some plans to add actions in Oxygen for counting words and 
characters.
In the meantime you can create an XSLT stylesheet with the following 
content:

<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0'
     xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>

<xsl:template match='/'>
<xsl:text>The document contains </xsl:text>
<xsl:call-template name='add'>
<xsl:with-param name='nodes' select='//text()'/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:text> characters.
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name='add'>
<xsl:param name='sum' select='0'/>
<xsl:param name='nodes' select='/..'/>

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test='not($nodes)'>
<xsl:value-of select='$sum'/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name='add'>
<xsl:with-param name='sum'
                         select='$sum + string-length($nodes[1])'/>
<xsl:with-param name='nodes'
                         select='$nodes[position() != 1]'/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

and apply it on the XML file.
If you need to count words, there is an XSLT stylesheet available here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/11854

Regards,
Radu

-- 
Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>   XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com



On 5/7/2010 5:19 PM, Rogie Isabelle wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to know simply the number of characters in a xml file?
>
> I use Author version 10.2 on Mac OS X.
>
> Best Regards,
>
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>
> **Isabelle Rogie**
>
> Database Chief project
>
> Wolters Kluwer France
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