count from XML

[googletired]

Ok,

I need to be able to count the # of items for each category and have it display.

So say i have a left menu that displays that category name for cat in the current issue.xml for instance en_print_200802 .xml which is called form a seperate .xml volissue.xml beside each name i want to display the # of items in each category.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<vol_issue vol_issue_id="200802">
 <description>February</description>
 <language>en</language>
 <type>print</type>
 <xmlfilename>en_print_200802.xml</xmlfilename>
 <cdfilename>cd_en_print_200802.xml</cdfilename>
 <category category_id="2">
  <sort_order>2</sort_order>
  <article article_id="48633"/>
 </category>
 <category category_id="1">
  <sort_order>3</sort_order>
  <article article_id="48105"/>
  <article article_id="48104"/>
  <article article_id="48103"/>
  <article article_id="48102"/>
  <article article_id="48101"/>
 </category>

XSL

<xsl:variable name="category_lookup" select="document('../articles/categories.xml')"/>
 
<xsl:template match="vol_issue">
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="$target = 'web'">
            <div class="ln-text">
            <xsl:for-each select="category">
                <xsl:sort select="sort_order" data-type="number" order="ascending" />
                <xsl:variable name="catid" select="@category_id"/>
                <xsl:variable name="classname">
                  <xsl:choose>
                  <xsl:when test="$catid = $selectedcat"><xsl:text>ln-slink</xsl:text></xsl:when>
                  <xsl:otherwise><xsl:text>ln-alink</xsl:text></xsl:otherwise>
                  </xsl:choose>
                </xsl:variable>    
                <xsl:text>•*</xsl:text><a href="{$strBaseURL}&amp;vol={/vol_issue/@vol_issue_id}&amp;cat={$catid}" id="{$catid}" class="{$classname}"><xsl:value-of 
 
select="$category_lookup/main/category[@category_id = $catid]/description"/>: <!-- <xsl:value-of select="document('vol_issue/@vol_issue_id.xml')//count(value)"/> -->
</a><br/>
                 </xsl:for-each>
            </div>
        </xsl:when>            
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <input type="hidden" name="lang" value="{language}"/>
        <input type="hidden" name="type" value="{type}"/>
        <input type="hidden" name="vol_issue_id" value="{@vol_issue_id}"/>
        <xsl:for-each select="category">
            <xsl:sort select="sort_order" data-type="number" order="ascending" />
            <xsl:variable name="catid" select="@category_id"/>
            <input type="checkbox" name="cat" value="{$catid}"><xsl:value-of select="$category_lookup/main/category[@category_id = $catid]/description"/></input><br/>    
         </xsl:for-each>    
    </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
 
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks,

B.

[jkmyoung]

In your category for-each:
<xsl:value-of select="count(a rticle)"/>

[googletired]

Thanks,

Works well.

B.