Question

There are 24 rows returned by my dataview webpart. There’s a column called NoExperience which has a number type. For some rows, it has value for NoExperience and some rows don’t contain value for NoExperience. I only need to count the number in NoExperience column that would indicate total # of non empty value for that column. Sort of COUNTA function in Excel.

I m using xsl 1.0.

Any help?Below is my line of code. This always return 24. There are 10 non empty values for NoExperience column. I need to find that number.

<xsl:value-of select="count(/dsQueryResponse/Rows/Row/@NoExperience)" />

In XPAth builder the value of @NoExperience shows like this:
; ; ; ; ; ; ; 6; 6; ; 6; ; ; ; 6; ; 7; 7; ; ; 9; 9; 9; 9;

There are 10 non empty values.

Answer 1

Presumably the “empty” case has <Row NoExperience=""> rather than the attribute not being there at all, so you need something like

<xsl:value-of select="count(/dsQueryResponse/Rows/Row/@NoExperience[string(.)])" />

as a non empty string value will act as a true predicate.