count(parent)

[Nutshell]

Hi,

I would like to add an attribute to the child node if it is the only child
node. The problem is I am not getting the correct count of child nodes with
this template:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xslutput method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:if test="name()='par' and count(parent::node()) = 1">
<xsl:attribute name="repeatCount">
<xsl:text>1</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Here, the 'par' node is the current child node and I would like to check
something like: if parent node of the current 'par' node has only one 'par'
node then add 'repeatCount' attribute to the only 'par' child node. But the
condition
<xsl:if test="name()='par' and count(parent::node()) = 1"> does not work for
me. What am I doing wrong in this condition?

Btw, I am using Xalan.

Thx, in advance!

 

[Joris Gillis]

Here, the 'par' node is the current child node and I would like to check
something like: if parent node of the current 'par' node has only one 'par'
node then add 'repeatCount' attribute to the only 'par' child node.

Hi,

The test expression could be something like this:
<xsl:if test="self:ar and count(../par) = 1">


regards,

 

[Joris Gillis]

me. What am I doing wrong in this condition?

'parent::node()' (abbreviated '..') selects all parent nodes of the context node. Since all nodes (all descendants of the document root) have exactly 1 parent, the test 'count(parent::node()) = 1' will always return true.