<xsl:value-of select="count('/GROUPS/GROUP')"/> does not work.

[Son KwonNam]

When I try <xsl:value-of select="count('/GROUPS/GROUP')"/> on JSTL
<x:transform> tag, I got the following error message.

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Can not convert #STRING to a NodeList!

but, if I try that on Sonic XIS XSL transform API It works fine.
What's the problem?

Java(apache JSTL) does not support XPath functions?

[Dimitre Novatchev]

"Son KwonNam" <ih***@spam.com> wrote in message
news:bm**********@news1.kornet.net...

When I try <xsl:value-of select="count('/GROUPS/GROUP')"/> on JSTL
<x:transform> tag, I got the following error message.

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Can not convert #STRING to a NodeList!

but, if I try that on Sonic XIS XSL transform API It works fine.
What's the problem?

The problem is that the count() function requires a node-set argument. What
you're passing to it is the *string*
'/GROUPS/GROUP'

You actually wanted:

count(/GROUPS/GROUP)
=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL