On Apr 13, 2005, at 2:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How did you count lines, Clay?

Just curious 'cause it might be handy someday.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)

I cheated... I had a hand in creating the XML file, so I told them that if they wanted multiple lines, rather than output like this:


<TRAILER>sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf</TRAILER>

I asked them to make it like this:

<TRAILER>
<LINE>sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj</LINE>
<LINE>sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj</LINE>
<LINE>sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj</LINE>
<LINE>sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf sadfl;kjajsdflsadfj sadf</LINE>
</TRAILER>


Then I did a count(TRAILER/LINE) and multiplied the result by the number of lines (IIRC it was .6cm per line or something). I sent that to the fop-user list over a year ago... :-p

Web Maestro Clay
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